Smeds did not like it. It was getting complicated. He did not like things complicated. Trying to untangle them usually made things worse. - Glen Cook

There were prodigies and portents enough, One-Eye says. We must blame ourselves for misinterpreting them. One-Eye’s handicap in no way impairs his marvelous hindsight.

The sky? Dark as the inside of a priest’s heart, isn’t it?

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.