“A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.” PeopleWorldRunningGuyOughtGenuineSpectrumGood Guy Book:A Shadow of All Night Falling Source: A Shadow of All Night Falling
“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.” IfsWorldGamesBlackWhiteMoralPlayerFixedBoardsShadeMarvelousGrey Book:Chronicles of the Black Company Source: Chronicles of the Black Company
“No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.” WorldHumansMadeCareUniverseForceHuman BeingsDestinyGreaterImpossibleShapesWorshipUnderstoodShadowInsanityConsistentDescriptionIncapableTwistedParanoidInterpretingWorshippersMegalomaniacs Author:Glen Cook
“I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.” WorldBelievePersonsImportantSelfLyingOpinionNiceHonestyAbsolutesGreedFolksLustSubstitutesSchemesCompelledSneakySleazy Book:The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company Source: The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company
