# Quote — Iain M. Banks, Feersum Endjinn

> The King liked happy endings. You couldn’t blame the ancients for coming up with unhappy conclusions so often—they each spent all their single short life waiting either for oblivion or some absurd after-death torture—but that didn’t mean you had to stick faithfully to their paralyzed paradigms and ruin a good story with a depressing dénouement.

- Author: [Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md)
- Book: [Feersum Endjinn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/feersum-endjinn.md)
- Page: 102
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Feersum_Endjinn_(1994)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/feersum-endjinn/the-king-liked

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> “Even though we thought ourselves by now inured to the thoroughly reckless nature of our opponents, we have been profoundly shocked and disappointed to discover the completely irresponsible and utterly senseless depths—or should I say heights?”—the ambassadorial emissary showed his teeth and glanced around his appropriately appreciative team—“to which our previously at least ostensibly esteemed adversaries have been prepared to stoop to in their understandably increasingly desperate attempts to secure a victory in this outrageously prosecuted, thoroughly unfortunate and—on our part—wholly unprovoked dispute.”

p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/feersum-endjinn/even-though-we-thought.md)

> “Want to bet on it?”
>
> “Thank you, no. I believe gambling to be a pastime for the weak-minded.”

p. 171 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/feersum-endjinn/want-to-bet.md)

> Itz a very strainje feelin wakin up alive when u wer fooly expectin 2 b ded.

p. 303 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/feersum-endjinn/itz-a-very.md)