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Glen Cook _ The Books of the South
Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerers, unstoppable in war. Then came the administrators, who bound it all together into one apparently unshakable, immortal edifice. Then came the wasters, who knew no responsibility and squandered the capital of their inheritance upon whims and vices.
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Glen Cook _ The Books of the South
Narayan will pay. I will tear his heart out and use it to choke his goddess. They do not know what they have awakened. My strength has returned. They will pay. Longshadow, my sister, the Deceivers, Kina herself if she gets in my way. Their Year of the Skulls is upon them. I close the Book of Lady.
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Glen Cook _ The Books of the South
Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerers, unstoppable in war. Then came the administrators, who bound it all together into one apparently unshakable, immortal edifice. Then came the wasters, who knew no responsibility and squandered the capital of their inheritance upon
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Glen Cook _ The Books of the South
The old general amazed himself. The woman amazed him even more. Sometime in the wee hours the exhausted boss general promised, "Tomorrow night again. Within the walls of Stormgard. Maybe in Stormshadow's own bed." She wanted to know the basis for his confidence. As time labored on she just got more awake and lively. But the old man fell asleep on her.
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Glen Cook _ The Books of the South
More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains.
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Glen Cook _ The Books of the South
Smeds could see the shadow of the future. Get Old Man Fish and Timmy Locan to kype the spike. Get dumb old Smeds to croak them when they do. Then take the loot and walk. Who is Smeds going to complain to when he has the blood of two men on his hands? That would be just like Tully. Just like him.
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Glen Cook _ The Books of the South
He'd described himself as looking like a child molester waiting for a chance to strike. He wasn't comfortable with his appearance.
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Glen Cook _ The Books of the South
I admitted, "This might not have been one of my brighter ideas." "On the contrary. It confirms our suspicions that there's a greater interest in us than should be for simple travellers. They mean to use us." She was disturbed. "Welcome to life in the Black Company, sweetheart," I said. "Now you know why I'm cynical about lords and such. Now you know one of the feelings I've been trying to get across." "Maybe I get it. A little. I feel demeaned. Like I'm not human at all but an object that might be useful." "Like I said, welcome to the Black Company.
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Glen Cook _ The Books of the South
There is nothing so unreasonable and irrational and blind-and just plain silly-looking-as a man who works himself into an obsessive passion.
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Glen Cook _ The Books of the South
One-Eye scowled at Goblin. "Keep it up, Barf Bag. You'll be grocery shopping with the turtles." What the hell did that mean? Some kind of obscure shop talk? But Goblin was as croggled as the rest of us. Grinning, One-Eye resumed gabbling with his relatives.
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Glen Cook _ The Books of the South
My name is Case. Philodendron Case. Thanks to my Ma. I've never even told Raven about that. That's why I joined the army. To get away from the kind of potato diggers that would stick a name like that on a kid. I had seven sisters and four brothers last time I got a head count. Every one is named after some damned flower. A girl named Iris or Rose, what the hell, hey? But I got a brother named Violet and another brother named Petunia. What kind of people do that do their kids? Where the hell are the Butches and Spikes? Potato diggers.
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Glen Cook _ The Books of the South
About you and me, Croaker and his gang, the Lady, Silent, Darling. About all the things we had in common but still couldn't get along." "I didn't see all that much you had in common. Not once you got past having the same enemies." "Neither did I for a long time. And none of them saw it, either. Else we all might have tried a little harder." I tried to look like I gave a shit at three in the morning. "Basically we're all lonely, unhappy people looking for our place, Case. Loners who'd really rather not be but don't know how. When we get to the door that would let us in-or out-we can't figure out how to work the latch string.
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