The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get. — Glen Cook Aids Copy Share Image
More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. — Glen Cook Done Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause.” — Glen Cook Dying Copy Share Image
. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you. — Glen Cook Being true Copy Share Image
“Ah, the smell of mystery and dark doings, of skulduggery and revenge. The meat of a good tale.” — Glen Cook Skulduggery Copy Share Image
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything… — Glen Cook Hammered Copy Share Image
Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and… — Glen Cook Feels Copy Share Image
“Justice has nothing to do with it. Stark, bloody, screaming, agonizing vendeance is what I'm talking about.” — Glen Cook Justice Copy Share Image
“She came and she went, in sorrow for the death of dreams, and she came no more.” — Glen Cook Death Copy Share Image
I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different. — Glen Cook Conviction Copy Share Image
“Closer at hand, the wheeling gulls were as surly and lackadaisical as the day promised to make most men.” — Glen Cook Gulls Copy Share Image
“In the night, when the wind dies and silence rules the place of glittering stone, I remember. And they all live again.” — Glen Cook Good-ending Copy Share Image
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your… — Glen Cook Ass Copy Share Image
“I am the Daughter of Night. I am the Child of Darkness Forthcoming. Come to my mother or become prey for the… — Glen Cook Children Copy Share Image
“No one will sing songs in our memory. We are the last of the Free Companies of Khatovar. Our traditions and memories… — Glen Cook Death Copy Share Image
“The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so… — Glen Cook Evil Copy Share Image
“I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another… — Glen Cook Another man Copy Share Image
“There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We… — Glen Cook Evil Copy Share Image
Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword.… — Glen Cook Cutting Copy Share Image
“I was never really a girl, or a woman, or a human being to Raven, Case. Even though he did awful things… — Glen Cook Person Copy Share Image
“You who come after me, scribbling these Annals, by now realize that I shy off portraying the whole truth about our band… — Glen Cook Barbarians Copy Share Image
“A guy I worked with and I talked it over about what you do with drunks. His dad was a reformed drunk.… — Glen Cook Making excuses Copy Share Image
I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its… — Glen Cook Children Copy Share Image
“Quite unwittingly I saved the lives of twenty enemies of the Stranglers scheduled to be tortured and murdered during the night. The… — Glen Cook The-black-company Copy Share Image
“My name is Case. Philodendron Case. Thanks to my Ma. I’ve never even told Raven about that. That’s why I joined the… — Glen Cook Brotherhood Copy Share Image
No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description.… — Glen Cook Care Copy Share Image
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you… — Glen Cook Evil Copy Share Image
“The river barge "Binkey's Sequin" reminded me of a shopkeeper's wife. She was middle-aged, middle class, a little run down, a little… — Glen Cook Marriage Copy Share Image
“It is an age lurching along the lip of a dark precipice, peeking fearfully into chaos's empty eyes, enrapt, like a giddy… — Glen Cook Death Copy Share Image
“About you and me, Croaker and his gang, the Lady, Silent, Darling. About all the things we had in common but still… — Glen Cook Lonely Copy Share Image
“- Goblin, that was a dumb stunt. - It sure was. Made me feel forty years younger.” — Glen Cook Goblin Copy Share Image
“...let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.” — Glen Cook Gods Copy Share Image
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. — Glen Cook Evil Copy Share Image
“I reserve the right to be unreasonable, inconsistent, and arbitrary in an unreasonable, inconsistent, and arbitrary universe.” — Glen Cook Unreasonable Copy Share Image
“I cry for a little girl's dreams. I cry because the dreams will not die, though I am powerless to make them… — Glen Cook Dreams Copy Share Image
“I have been told I always look at the dark underbelly of tomorrow. Possibly. You’re less likely to be disappointed that way.” — Glen Cook Dark Copy Share Image
