

“In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every solider in every world.”
― Dust of Dreams
― Dust of Dreams

“It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses

“They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.”
― Making Money
― Making Money

“No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.”
― Toll the Hounds
― Toll the Hounds

“Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.”
― Suttree
― Suttree
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