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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His problem is, he gets an idea in his head and he can’t get it out if it’s wrong, no matter what evidence you hit him with.
My apprentices were exasperating. They were competing to see who was laziest.
Literacy is sorcery itself in the hinterland.
Like most warlords he doesn’t let reality get in the way of his doing whatever he wants to do.
She wasn’t satisfied with the way things turned out. What the hell can you do with women? You can give them exactly what they ask for and they’ll cuss you because that ain’t what they really want.
He talks big about his goddess getting involved but I won’t count on that. I’ve never seen the gods actually take a hand in mortal affairs.
She did not seem offended, so I added my secret philosophy of life: any dork who became a soldier for an idea instead of the money deserved to die for his country. You’re going to put it all on the table, six up with some other guy, it damned well better be for stakes you can carry away.
You try your damnedest, but something always goes wrong. That’s life. If you’re smart, you plan for it.
I began to back away. This is how I handle my women. Duck for cover when they get distressed.
I could not get my feelings straight. I did not believe in evil as an active force, only as a matter of viewpoint, yet I had seen enough to make me question my philosophy. If the Lady were not evil incarnate, then she was as close as made no difference.
A sign of advancing age. You start obsessing about how much you have to get done in the time that you have left.
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.
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.
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.
The best of the diviner breed are never wrong because they never set anything in stone.