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...
Bragging is how criminals get caught and men with deep secrets deliver themselves to their enemies. It’s bonehead human nature. We all want to look special. Knowing something is one of the best ways.
Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.
While something would be happening inside. I do not believe in evil absolute. I have recounted that philosophy in specific elsewhere in the Annals, and it affects my every observation throughout my te...
You can’t convince me that I’m obligated to save you from yourself.
Yes. He argued that we are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines what will become of us. In a peasantlike vernacular, we all paint ourselves into corners from which the...
What did we do today to frighten the world?
Water sleeps, but Enemy never rests.
The sergeant major roared like a bear who’d broken a tooth while gnoshing on somebody’s skull. I made out no distinct words but in all the history of the universe sergeants major never have been requi...
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...
The law isn’t always about what’s right. Or wrong. A lot of times it’s about somebody being guaranteed an advantage over somebody else. And that’s human nature. That’s the nature of any sentient speci...
The common wisdom among former grunts is that competent generals wouldn’t have screwed up so bad they got themselves killed and therefore there wouldn’t have been any need for a memorial. Soldiers are...
People don’t want to be told to do right. They don’t really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want—and whine that it’s not fair, it’s not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper...
Only way you’re gonna have a world with universal equality is if you got one where there’s only one guy left standing.
Oh, it’s a soldier’s life for me. Oh, the adventure and glory! It
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.
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, Ki...
My guess is, six of one, half a dozen of the other. Crows
More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains.
Maybe. We're all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouting into the jaws of eternity. But it seems so damned unfair!