“All the best romances bloom in the midst of a good siege.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“Listen up, then. Evil is a choice. It is a choice. Doing the wicked thing is the easy way out, and it is habit forming. I’ve done it.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“May I leave you with some genuine wisdom, in place of all the humdrum claptrap? Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live. And that is as true for my kind as for yours.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“The essence of warfare is to force the pace and hope your enemy makes a mistake.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“Never make a plan more complicated than your ability to communicate it.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“The devil can quote scripture,” she said.
“No doubt he had his hand in writing it,” the captain shot back.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“These Outwallers that killed Hector - the Sossag - they were serving a Power of the Wild called Thorn. Aye?"
"Naming calls. But yes." The captain drank.
"So I call him and he comes and I gut him," Tom said. "So?”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“Men tire quickly when they are scared. A patrol in hostile terrain is the most tiring thing a soldier can do short of violence.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“There are different types of soldier. Some men are trained to stand under fire, waiting for their turn to inflict death. Others are like hunters, slipping from cover to cover.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“Gelfred,’ the captain said, with a bitter smile. ‘God doesn’t give a fuck.’ Their”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“It had been done to leave terror. It was almost artistic.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“They were going to do that thing that they did. When they moved like lightning and struck like the hammer on the anvil. Soldiers know, feel, these things. And luck rose about them, as if they were magi casting words of power with the hooves of their horses.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“The captain shook his head. “Mag, what do my thoughts of good and evil mean to the worms in the road? I can be the most honourable knight who ever lived, and my horse’s iron-shod hooves will crush their soft bodies every step, after a rain.” He smiled at her. “And I won’t even know.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“If there is a god, how can he allow so much fucking misery and deserve my thanks for it?”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
“His sword took the nearest neatly, because killing fleeing infantryman was an essential part of knightly training, taken for granted, like courage.”
― Miles Cameron, quote from The Red Knight
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“There ‘s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ‘t is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is ‘t to leave betimes? Hamlet. V.2”
― William Shakespeare, quote from The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete (Three Volume Set in Slipcase)
“Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Dragonswan
“It would be my pleasure to leave the gentleman at the door and fuck you four ways dirty.”
― Vi Keeland, quote from Stuck-Up Suit
“The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.”
― Belinda Bauer, quote from Rubbernecker
“If you in fact had no gold, then your situation was hopeless. You would be beaten, burned, tortured, and steamed to the point of death or until they finally came to believe you. But if you had gold, you could determine the extent of your torture, the limits of your endurance, and your own fate. Psychologically, this situation was, incidentally, not easier but more difficult, because if you made an error
you would always be ridden by a guilty conscience. Of course, anyone who had already mastered the rules of the institution would yield and give up his gold—that was easier. But it was a mistake to give it up too readily. They would refuse to believe you had coughed it all up, and they would continue to hold you. But you'd be wrong, too, to wait too long before yielding: you'd end up kicking the bucket or they'd paste a term on you out of meanness. One of the Tatar draymen endured all the tortures: he had no gold! They imprisoned his wife, too, and tortured her, but the Tatar stuck to his story: no gold! Then they arrested his daughter: the Tatar couldn't take it any more. He coughed up 100,000 rubles. At this point they let his family go, but slapped a prison term on him.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quote from The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II
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