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.
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This is what happens when you get old. You start thinking. Worse, you start telling everybody what you think.
Being an old cynic myself I have strong notions about the true value of human gratitude. It is a currency whose worth plunges by the hour.
Are lovers ever honest?
No captive was smart enough to speak a language any of us knew. Talking loud or slow did not help.
Beneath my breath I continued my conversation with God. As usual, He did not trouble Himself to defend His Works to me. My fault for being a woman.
The power to kill becomes the ultimate power in the hands of a man who has no reservations about employing it.
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.
Life with me and the Company has not been anything like happily ever after. Reality has a way of slow-roasting romance.
I grinned. “The unwritten law of all armies, Captain. The lower ranks have the privilege of questioning the sanity and competence of their commanders. It’s the mortar holding an army together.”
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.
Ignorance is a chink in the armor a knowledgeable enemy can exploit at will.
Soldiers live. And wonder why.
I do hope that karma is the keystone of the universe—even if I have to come back as a banana slug myself.
I did not reflect on what my response, as Captain, would have been toward an underling with my present attitude. The Words Immortal are: That Was Different.
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.
Soldiers Live (2000)