Glen Cook
Quotes
You don’t alter the past, turn the tide, or change yourself by brooding about your hidden motives. You will surprise yourself every time, anyway. Nobody ever figures out why.
p. 93
His big crime was stupidity compounded by godlessness.
p. 261
My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.
p. 5
The human capacity for mischief is boundless.
p. 104
Often all we need to be civil with one another is the presence of a referee we don’t want thinking us fools.
p. 238
She wanted to be crazy. She said when you’re crazy the truth is whatever you want it to be. She wanted what she remembered not to be true.
p. 139
“I’m not accustomed to disobedience.”
“You are to get out into the real world more. You’d get in practice real fast.”
p. 38
The pill-brain microdeity whose mission is to mess with my life was on the job.
p. 113
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
The runt seemed awfully reasonable for a supposed raving fanatic. I guess the first talent a priest develops is acting ability.
p. 22
I have a statistic I want you to consider, Garrett. Of all the guys who have loved her, only one is still alive.
p. 294
She wouldn’t have to work to charm the wardrobe off me. She had that something that goes beyond beauty, beyond style—an aura, a presence. She was the kind of woman who leaves eunuchs weeping and priests cursing their vows.
p. 6
