Glen Charles Cook (born July 9, 1944) is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for The Black Company and Garrett P.I. fantasy series.
Showing quotes in randomized order to avoid selection bias. Click Popular for most popular quotes.
The light overcame the shadow. But as always, the shadow left its taint on the victors.
I still got all my limbs and I'm still breathing." "Makes you a winner in the soldiering game.
Blade muttered, “Makes as much sense as the story of any other god. Meaning it don’t.”
I reminded myself that Khang Phi is bereft of arms. That the monks abhor violence. That they always yield to strength, then seduce it with reason and wisdom. Yes, sometimes it does take a while.
Go Premium
Support Quotewise while enjoying an ad-free experience and premium features.
They (i. e., the peasants) could imagine no future more grim than their past.
A sign of advancing age. You start obsessing about how much you have to get done in the time that you have left.
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.
He winced. “You’ll start a civil war.” “Not if everybody behaves and minds his own business.” “You don’t understand. Priests consider everything their business.”
For once he was as serious as a spear through the gut.
Desperate people will do what they must to survive. Only a fool would expect the results to be pretty.
How to argue with sociopathic reasoning? Lisa was the heart of Lisa’s universe. Other people existed only to be exploited.
Exact words were of no consequence. At heart the squabble was as old as humanity itself, fug-headed antiques locking horns with omniscient youth.
The power to kill becomes the ultimate power in the hands of a man who has no reservations about employing it.
It was a day ripped full-grown from the womb of despair.
Like most warlords he doesn’t let reality get in the way of his doing whatever he wants to do.