Limper flopped violently. The gag flew out of his mouth. His ankle bonds parted. He gained his feet, tried to run, tried to mouth some spell that would protect him. He had gone thirty feet when a thou...
Its front sags against its neighbor to the right, clinging for support like one of its own drunken patrons.
I reserve the right to be unreasonable, inconsistent, and arbitrary in an unreasonable, inconsistent, and arbitrary universe.
I am a haunted man. I am haunted by the Limper’s screams. I am haunted by the Lady’s laughter.
I am a haunted man. I am haunted by the Limper’s screams. I am haunted by the Lady’s laughter. I am haunted by my suspicion that we are furthering the cause of something that deserves to be scrubbed f...
God Save the Queen.’ Which is a particularly filthy drinking song about a cross-dressing fellow who has mad skills as a streetwalker but often gets
Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony.
But maybe there is a force for greater good, created by our unconscious minds conjoined, that becomes an independent power greater than the sum of its parts.
A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the upper right quandrant featured a shattered skull and the lo...
If each man picks an evil and attacks it relentlessly, how long can evil persist?That was an easy one. Forever. More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
An iron law of warfare. No matter how clever you are at finding a new tool, your opponent will come up with a counter long before that can possibly be convenient for you.
You who come after me, scribbling these Annals, by now realize that I shy off portraying the whole truth about our band of blackguards. You know they are vicious, violent, and ignorant. They are compl...
We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.
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 lie...
Part of winning is a downdeep certainty that, no matter how bad things look, a road to victory will open.
Lightning from a clear sky smote the Necropolitan Hill.
Let’s say the madonnas of the night in Elm were severely disappointed in the Black Company.
It was one of those moments in which I become very uncomfortable. One of those times when nothing you say can be right, and almost anything you do say is wrong. I could see no answer but the classic C...
It is an age lurching along the lip of a dark precipice, peeking fearfully into chaos's empty eyes, enrapt, like a giddy rat trying to stare down a hungry cobra. The gods are restless, tossing and tur...
I was never really a girl, or a woman, or a human being to Raven, Case. Even though he did awful things for me. I was a symbol, an expiation, and when I insisted on becoming a person he did the only t...