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I went back to staring tomorrow in the face. Better than looking backward. But tomorrow refused to shed its mask. (Glen Cook)
The best of the diviner breed are never wrong because they never set anything in stone. View quote
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Life with me and the Company has not been anything like happily ever after. Reality has a way of slow-roasting romance. View quote
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Nobody had any ideas. The questions just sort of lay there like dead fish too ripe to be ignored and too big to shove out of the way. View quote
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The sky? Dark as the inside of a priest's heart, isn't it? View quote
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All is not lost. But neither is it found. View quote
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Best way out,” Elmo observed laconically, "would be to kill everybody who knows anything, then all of us fall on our swords.” "Sounds a little extreme,” Goblin opined. "But if you want to go first, I'm right behind you. View quote
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He knew that he had screwed up but he was the kind of guy who, after he shoots his mouth off, cannot back down or admit any failing. The world is full of those people. All of us would be better off if their fathers would strangle them as soon as they showed signs of being that way. This particular fool was willing to sacrifice an army rather than admit his error. View quote
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There are, of course, a thousand sophistries spewed by those who wish to deny individuals the opportunity to choose. Which is an arrogant presumption of a divine scale. View quote
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He had gained all the power he had dreamed of then-and had not known a moment of peace since. View quote
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Soldiers live. And wonder why. (Glen Cook)
It was the wee hours of the morning, when even the heartbeat of the world had trouble thumping on. View quote
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I've always known people for whom a goal was everything, who never thought nothing about the consequences of the goal achieved. View quote
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But with royalty you never know. They think differently than real people. The real world never quite seems to reach them. View quote
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That damned rain had a personal grudge. It got no heavier but it never let up. Yet to east and west I saw light that indicated clear skies in those directions. The gods, if such existed, were laying on the misery especially for me. View quote
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I have seen it before. Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies. View quote
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Blade grumbled about the absurdities of the theological imagination and why didn't people have sense enough to smother would-be priests in their cradles? View quote
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Why do sorcerers always use languages nobody understands? Even Goblin and One-Eye do it. Each has confided that he cannot follow the tongue the other uses. Maybe they make it up? View quote
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I must be alive. Otherwise I wouldn't hurt so much. View quote
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I have always found the religious tolerance of the southerners amazing and disconcerting, though it was really only an ancient habit predicated on the fact that no religious community was strong enough to show the rest the errors in their thinking at swordspoint. View quote
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Ignorance is a chink in the armor a knowledgeable enemy can exploit at will. (Glen Cook)
She-and I-were of an age now where we spent too much time wondering how things might have gone had we made a few different choices. View quote
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Fools can make an omen of anything in retrospect. View quote
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I did not expect them to try anything but I am alive at my age because I make a habit of being ready for trouble when it seems most unlikely. View quote
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This soiree must have been so big that if held today, we'd call it a war. Or at least a riot. On and on. So-and-so of such-and-such, with Lady Who's-is, sixteen titles, four of which made sense. By the time the heralds finished proclaiming everyone, the party must have died of encroaching senility. View quote
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