I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.
Glen CookEvil is relativeโฆYou canโt hang a sign on it. You canโt touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.
Glen CookThere is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
Glen CookSoldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
Glen CookIf one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.
Glen Cook