Glen Cook Quotes

She had a full measure of youth’s indifference to the past.

Generating rumors is one thing even the most inept armed force does exceedingly well.

He had leaped into the embrace of self-delusion.
There was a lot of that going around.

She was not listening. If she listened she would have to hear uncomfortable truths.

I tend toward the cynical view where religion is concerned.

I felt wonderfully wicked. I always do when I frustrate overly powerful, responsible-to-no-one types who think all existence was created only for their pleasure and exploitation.

A sign of advancing age. You start obsessing about how much you have to get done in the time that you have left.

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.

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.

There was one temporal power greater than the greatest sorcery. Greed.

It proved to be much farther than I had hoped. It always is when you are running away.

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.

Baladitya understands that in addition to being foreign territory the past is, as history, a hall of mirrors that reflect the needs of souls observing from the present. Absolute fact serves the hungers of only a few disconnected people. Symbol and faith serve the rest.

This is what happens when you get old. You start thinking. Worse, you start telling everybody what you think.

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.