# Glen Cook - Quotes: 59 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook ## Books - [Bitter Gold Hearts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/bitter-gold-hearts.md) — 16 quotes - [Cold Copper Tears](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears.md) — 28 quotes - [Sweet Silver Blues](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/sweet-silver-blues.md) — 15 quotes ## Recently added quotes > We Loghyr have never found proof of the existence of any gods. Neither have we disproved their existence, although logic militates against it. They are not necessary to explain anything. Nature does not provide that which is not needed. p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/we-loghyr-have.md) > Hano may not fulfill your prescription for such a being. So call him Prime Mover or just the force that set time and matter in motion. > > He must be because we need him to be. And he must be what we need him to be. It is a philosophical argument difficult to grasp for we who live among obdurately hard surfaces and sharp edges that ignore our wishes, but the observer invariably affects the phenomenon. In this context, God—by whatever name—is, and is constrained to be, whatever we believe him to be. p. 236 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/hano-may-not.md) > Really? It made a crazy sense. Maybe perfect sense to somebody in the religion business. p. 235 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/really-it-made.md) > I had forgotten the first rule: everybody lies about sex, and the client always lies about it. p. 148 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/i-had-forgotten.md) > When the going gets tough, the smart get going and the stupid keep heading toward trouble. p. 180 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/when-the-going.md) > “I know you priests believe six impossible things every day before breakfast,” I said. “Some of you, anyway. I think most of you are parasites who live off the gullible, the ignorant and the desperate. I don’t think any of you who get ahead believe what you preach. You sure never practice it.” p. 235 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/i-know-you.md) > People don’t want to be told to do right. They don’t really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want—and whine that it’s not fair, it’s not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper. p. 162 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/people-dont-want.md) > I’m a guy who doesn’t understand intangible stakes. I know some would argue that I have a set of values I take pretty seriously, but if I can’t eat it or spend it or make it go purr in the night, I don’t know what to do with it. It’s a weakness, a blind spot. Sometimes I forget that there are guys willing to get killed over ideas. p. 149 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/im-a-guy.md) > You need understand only that they are more dangerous than anyone you have ever battled, excepting perhaps vampires defending their nest. They do not just believe, they know. Their devil god has spoken to each of them directly and has given each of them a look into a paradise where they will spend eternity. They will do anything because they know there is no penalty to compare with their coming reward. They fear nothing. They are saved and will be born again, and concrete evidence has been given them for this. They need take the word of no one but their god himself. p. 187 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/you-need-understand.md) > Mr. Garrett, you appear to be the sort who needs to be cut to believe in swords. I understand that mentality better than you think. Do you comprehend the idea of symbol? You say you accept sorcery. The very root of sorcery is manipulation of symbol in a way that affects referent. And that’s the root of religion, too. p. 236 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/mr-garrett-you.md) > However, proof or lack thereof are unnecessary to the mind that must believe. And that mind becomes doubly narrow and doubly dangerous when it is given what it perceives as proof. Then it can begin to create that in which it believes. p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/however-proof-or-lack.md) > Next thing I knew I wasn’t alone. And the someone with me was very warm, very naked, and very female. And very determined. And I sure don’t have much will power. p. 193 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/next-thing-i-knew.md)