Madle named names. Some were on my list and some were not. Those that were not I assumed to be spear carriers. Tally had been well and reliably scouted. The last corpse went out. I gave Madle a small...
Lately I’ve felt the burden of time more and more, all too often dwelling on everything I’ve missed. I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I r...
Lady muttered some very unladylike sniggen snaggen riddly rodden racklesnatzes under her breath, then
I’m going to adopt you. You’d make a wonderful daughter. Hey, evil-minded future daughter number two. You heard Arkana. What do you think? Grudgingly, Shukrat admitted, I think she’s right. Excellent!...
It is not good form to bicker with your superiors, however wrong they may be and however one-sided their determination of their superiority
In religion, precise truth has almost no currency. True believers will kill and destroy to defend their inaccurate beliefs.
If you want to head for hell by way of smoking weed or opium, or by drinking, or by being dim enough to call a giant names to his face, go head. Enjoy the slide. I won’t get in your way. Nope. I won’t...
I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.
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.
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
Combat is fear and management of fear far more than it is organized murder. Those who manage fear best will seize the day.
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...
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...
Get in touch with the seamiest side of yourself. Pick a fantasy, one you wouldn’t tell anyone about. One that makes you uncomfortable or embarrassed when you think about it. In the Tenderloin there’s...
We gathered our things and began taking leave of camp followers who had trickled out from the city. Our animals and equipment would be their reward for faith and friendship. I spent a sad, gentle hour...
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints.
The price of order, I muttered. I tried to run the dog off. It wouldn’t budge.The cost of chaos, Tom-Tom countered. on his drum. Not quite the same thing, Croaker.
The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.
The age is sorrowfully short of characters of the magnificently villainous vitality of those the Dominator took in olden times: Soulcatcher, the Hanged Man, Nightcrawler, Shapeshifter, the Limper, and...
Singed, he said, assuming that air of phony dignity cats adopt after some particularly inept performance. Something like, That’s what I meant to do all along.