. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony.” The Black Company pg 447” — Glen Cook Humor Copy Share Image
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent. — Glen Cook Cynicism Copy Share Image
Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete. — Glen Cook 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
“...let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.” — Glen Cook Gods Copy Share Image
Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white,… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. — Glen Cook 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
“I reserve the right to be unreasonable, inconsistent, and arbitrary in an unreasonable, inconsistent, and arbitrary universe.” — Glen Cook 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 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
I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men… — 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
“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. We abjure labels. We… — 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
If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim… — Glen Cook 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 Copy Share Image
“Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerers, unstoppable… — Glen Cook Empire 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
“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
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose… — Glen Cook 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
“Quite unwittingly I saved the lives of twenty enemies of the Stranglers scheduled to be tortured and murdered during the night. The… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“It was one of those moments in which I become very uncomfortable. One of those times when nothing you say can be… — Glen Cook Humour Copy Share Image
“The fugitive blew through a doorway. I was only two steps behind, but when I got there the door was closed and… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“- Goblin, that was a dumb stunt. - It sure was. Made me feel forty years younger.” — Glen Cook Goblin Copy Share Image
