There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
Still, the best augurs are those who divine from the portents of the past. They compile phenomenal records.
I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs.
Every ruler makes enemies. The Lady is no exception. The Sons of the White Rose are everywhere.… If one chooses sides on emotion, then the Rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything me...
This is a favorite game, matching wits with a Raker. He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starving children. As is the Rebel. Two blind armies, able to see nothing but one another.
Mercy’s platoon hastily established a strongpoint near the Rubbish Gate and held off all three cohorts. Most of our men were killed, but none ran. Mercy himself lost an eye, a finger, was wounded in s...
He surveyed his audience with that look of sublime solemnity only a drunk can muster.
Mythology is one area where nobody wants to know the absolute truth because time has forged great symbols from raw materials supplied by ancient events. Prosaic distortions of fact metamorphose into p...
There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time.
Monsters aren’t born, they’re made. That they are memorials which take years of cruelty to sculpt. And that while we should weep for the tortured child who served as raw material, we should permit no...
They steal our yesterdays and leave us no youth but that of our children.…
Singe stopped. You are quite right about Medford Shale, Garrett. Great-uncle Medford had figured prominently in the case where I’d first made Singe’s acquaintance. Just as you were right about me need...
I am not religious. I cannot conceive of gods who would give a damn about humanity’s frothy carryings-on. I mean, logically, beings of that order just wouldn’t.
Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies.
Order was what regular people wanted. Order and security were necessary before prosperity could take hold. The political crap, the who is going to be in charge, did not matter to most folks.
Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The
Equal justice for all. As long as you make it yourself.
Early birds. Let ’em eat worms.
Nobody who wasn’t down there
Cruel it may be, but most of us enjoy what we do—and the Captain more than anyone. This is a favorite game, matching wits with a Raker. He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starvin...
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