“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
“You who come after me, scribbling these Annals, by now realize that I shy off portraying the whole truth about our band… — Glen Cook Truth 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
“You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you're glad it was him and not you, then you feel… — Glen Cook Death Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause.” — Glen Cook War 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
“...let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.” — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“A man lay before me. He had sunk as low as any I had ever known. Then he had fought his way… — Glen Cook Life 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 was never really a girl, or a woman, or a human being to Raven, Case. Even though he did awful things… — Glen Cook 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
“Justice has nothing to do with it. Stark, bloody, screaming, agonizing vendeance is what I'm talking about.” — Glen Cook 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
There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart. — Glen Cook Coward Copy Share Image
Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. — Glen Cook Believe 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
More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. — Glen Cook Done 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
“Ah, the smell of mystery and dark doings, of skulduggery and revenge. The meat of a good tale.” — Glen Cook Storytelling Copy Share Image
“I reserve the right to be unreasonable, inconsistent, and arbitrary in an unreasonable, inconsistent, and arbitrary universe.” — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques. — Glen Cook Character Copy Share Image
“I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was,… — Glen Cook Death Copy Share Image
