# Quote — Glen Cook, Bitter Gold Hearts

> Or maybe I was too suspicious. This business can do that to you. You have to remember to keep it simple. You don’t need to look for the great sinuous, complicated schemes reeking of subterfuge and malice when a little stupidity followed by desperate cover-up efforts will explain everything just as well. And you have to remember to keep an eye out for who stands to gain. That alone will flag your villain eight times out of ten.

- Author: [Glen Cook](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook.md)
- Book: [Bitter Gold Hearts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/bitter-gold-hearts.md)
- Page: 139
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Glen_Cook#Bitter_Gold_Hearts_(1988)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/bitter-gold-hearts/or-maybe-i-was

## More from this book

> Even when you have your mind made up, you can’t stay blind to reality forever.

p. 279 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/bitter-gold-hearts/even-when-you.md)

> I started to express my incredulity, but it struck me that I might learn a little more a lot faster with my mouth shut. I admit I don’t often have these epiphanies.

p. 214 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/bitter-gold-hearts/i-started-to-express.md)

> “Yeah?” I snapped when I yanked the door open. It didn’t matter that the woman was wearing a thousand marks’ worth of custom cloth or that the street was filled with guys in flashy livery. I’ve seen too much of the rich to be impressed.

p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/bitter-gold-hearts/yeah-i-snapped.md)