Glen Cook Quotes

Though it might wear a thousand different names in a thousand different times, and might come from a thousand different directions, darkness always comes.

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.

Time has a way of blunting the sharpest edge of determination.

Ignorance is a chink in the armor a knowledgeable enemy can exploit at will.

He jumped down, started waving his arms around while he went to squeaking and squealing in one of those languages wizards use so the rest of us will think there is something terribly strange and mystical about what they do, kind of like lawyers.

But how do you get rid of a god? Is there any religion where they teach you that? How to get your god off your back if he gets too damned obnoxious? No. All you ever get is advice on how to bribe them to leave you alone for a few minutes.

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.

The soldiers stumbled forward doggedly, cursing the bite of the wind while reminding one another that generals are seldom of sound mind and unbesmirched ancestry. They would not be generals if they were.

He had a distinct problem imagining minds working differently from his own.

That was not an exaggeration, that was an outright fabrication.

He had gained all the power he had dreamed of then—and had not known a moment of peace since.

Rage is a red, near-animate force, as bloated with compassion as a starving serpent.

You are a hired sword. A soldier. You should not be playing philosophical games. Not even with yourself.

I do not worship any gods myself, though I guess some are real in their own ways. I have to believe that all of them get regular belly-laughs because one of them was ingenious to create human sexuality. Even greed and lust for power do not come close to generating the stupidities that us being male and female do.
But by giving it half a thought I can think of as many glories that spring from the same dichotomy.

The poor idiot is a living testimonial to the fact that everything takes longer and costs more. Even magic can’t get you around that.