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Glen Cook
261 quotes
“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
“But somewhere along the way he had made up his mind and set it in concrete. Changed circumstances would not budge him.”
“She made no effort to peel herself from me. I thought about pushing her away—sometime next week.”
“Slick, Garrett. Remind me not to get on your wrong side. You’re so slick you’d slide uphill.”
“When you consider the possibility of wizards being involved in anything, the smart thing to do is to assume the worst.”
“I’m beginning to wonder if we ought not to re-examine your diet, Morley. Such unrelenting pessimism must have some deficiency at its base.” “The only deficiencies bothering me are of good luck, financial wherewithal, and female companionship.”
“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.”
“Folks always believe their own racism is the result of divine inspiration, incontestably valid.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have a statistic I want you to consider, Garrett. Of all the guys who have loved her, only one is still alive.”
“I got a little too intense. He backed off and gave me the look you give the nut on the corner preaching that pixies are the secret masters and if we don’t do something they’re going to run off with our sisters and daughters.”
“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.”
“We like to know that our guests are out when they head out. Some of them are so slow they might not remember which side of the door they’re supposed to be on when it shuts.”
“I’m not accustomed to disobedience.” “You are to get out into the real world more. You’d get in practice real fast.”
“You should forget Ami. I’m much more interesting.” In that instance I decided she was wrong. Amiranda Crest was a woman. This one wore a woman’s body but the creature inside was spoiled, vain, snobbish, and probably not very bright.”
“You get paranoid in this business. But maybe paranoids get that way because of all the people out to get them.”
“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.”
“Don’t even think about it, horse. I have friends in the glue business. Get up.” They got. Unlike women, you can show horses who is boss.”
“Time was the enemy never to be conquered and there were no reserves to help stay the tide.”
“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.”
“You’re a cynical and suspicious character, Garrett.” “It’s people like you who make me that way.”
“I know what I’m doing.” You usually think you do. Occasionally you are correct.”
“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.”
“Often all we need to be civil with one another is the presence of a referee we don’t want thinking us fools.”
“I’m tempted to invoke penalties on the lot and let the gods distinguish between the wicked and the merely incompetent.”
“His big crime was stupidity compounded by godlessness.”
“Even when you have your mind made up, you can’t stay blind to reality forever.”
“My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.”
“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.”
“I didn’t know him. That was all right. There are a lot of people I don’t know, but I wondered if he was one of the ones I wanted to keep on not knowing.”
“Every revelation slashes Belief with a brutal razor. Already some who never questioned have begun to wonder if all religion isn’t just a shell game perpetrated by societies of con men who milk the gullible.”
“The runt seemed awfully reasonable for a supposed raving fanatic. I guess the first talent a priest develops is acting ability.”
“I decided she wouldn’t show. What was in it for her? I was pretty sure she was a gal who didn’t take a deep breath without calculating her return on investment. Such a shame; all that beauty wasted.”
“To me wine is just so much spoiled fruit juice.”
“I had a thought. That happens. So do lunar eclipses.”
“The only thing that comes easy is trouble.”
“Halfway up I met an old priest. He smiled and nodded benevolently, one of those guys who are what priests are supposed to be, and as a consequence, remain at the foot of the episcopal ladder throughout their lives.”
“I took nothing at face. Everywhere I turned religion popped up, and that’s a game of masks and deceit and illusions if ever there was one.”
“The human capacity for mischief is boundless.”
“The pill-brain microdeity whose mission is to mess with my life was on the job.”
“I’ve always suffered from a weakness for female flesh.” “Don’t we all.” He scowled. “That wasn’t a problem when I was younger. If I visited a prostitute and she found me out, she’d laugh. Priests are their best customers. But if I were found out now I could be destroyed.”
“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.”
“I had forgotten the first rule: everybody lies about sex, and the client always lies about it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Know what I think? I got started on the wrong foot at the beginning. I’ve been trying to get it to make sense.” Maya looked at me weird. “What the hell are you yapping about?” “I’m trying to make sense of something that isn’t rational. I knew from the beginning that religion was involved. Several religions, maybe. You can try from now until the end of the world and you’re not going to make sense out of that.”
“When the going gets tough, the smart get going and the stupid keep heading toward trouble.”
“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.”
“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.”