# Quote — Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

> There is no way to get your health back. You live on memories of what was and fantasies about what might have been. Both can be deadly to the man who loses sight of the demarcation between them and reality.

- Author: [Glen Cook](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook.md)
- Book: [Sweet Silver Blues](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/sweet-silver-blues.md)
- Page: 34
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Glen_Cook#Sweet_Silver_Blues_(1987)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/sweet-silver-blues/there-is-no-way

## More from this book

> “Kayean and I used to walk up here at night to, uh…”
>
> “In a graveyard?”
>
> “Nothing like tombstones to remind you how little time you have for the finer things in life.”

p. 112 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/sweet-silver-blues/kayean-and-i-used.md)

> “The Sair is accustomed to dealing with unbelievers, but even from them he expects the honor and deference due his rank.”
>
> “I’ll be sure not to slap him on the back and ask if he wants a beer,” I said.

p. 124 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/sweet-silver-blues/the-sair-is-accustomed.md)

> If you ask me, the difference between a hero and a coward is that a hero find some damn-fool way to con himself into going ahead instead of doing the sensible thing.

p. 239 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/sweet-silver-blues/if-you-ask.md)