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  1. Glen Cook _ Shadows Linger

    I have been told I always look at the dark underbelly of tomorrow. Possibly. You're less likely to be disappointed that way.
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  2. Glen Cook _ Shadows Linger

    Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony.
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  3. Glen Cook _ Shadows Linger

    A man lay before me. He had sunk as low as any I had ever known. Then he had fought his way back and back and had become worthy. A man far better than I, for he had located his moral pole star and set his course by it though it had cost his life.
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  4. Glen Cook _ Shadows Linger

    The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so the legend goes. I sometimes wonder why, if that is true, she walks the earth and he lies restless in the grave.
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  5. Glen Cook _ Shadows Linger

    Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The
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  6. Glen Cook _ Shadows Linger

    There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
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  7. Glen Cook _ Shadows Linger

    I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.
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  8. Glen Cook _ Shadows Linger

    Best way out," Elmo observed laconically, "would be to kill everybody who knows anything, then all of us fall on our swords.""Sounds a little extreme," Goblin opined. "But if you want to go first, I'm right behind you.
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  9. Glen Cook _ Shadows Linger

    Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.
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  10. Glen Cook _ Shadows Linger

    I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.
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