Dee > Dee's Quotes

“I don’t need to be reminded that we’re up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we’re the gods-damned sharks.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“Hard times made hard men.”
― Mitchell Hogan, A Shattered Empire

“Infamy, infamy, you’ve all got it in for me,’ Dubrayle drawled.”
― David Hair, Hearts of Ice

“It is said that a great man’s children learn jealousy at their mother’s breast.”
― David Keck, In a Time of Treason

“Loyalty binds me,”
― Jeff Wheeler, The King's Traitor

“Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Fireblood

“I think comfort can be a curse, an addiction that without warning or notice erodes hope.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Myth

“We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“there's nothing on Oya I fear. I am the thing that's feared, the stories humans tell their children to keep them in their beds. I'm what lurks in the dark. I'm what cracks branches in the night, slowly moving through the shadows on my way to my meal.”
― Aaron Burdett, Grump & Rose

“Your moral education’s over.” Jean stared up into the sky as the dockside receded and Bug took them out into the canal’s heart. “Now you’re going to learn a thing or two about war.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“What does not corrupt a man’s heart cannot corrupt his life, or do him any lasting harm.”
― Harry Turtledove, Videssos Cycle, Volume One: The Misplaced Legion / An Emperor for the Legion

“A miser is merely a pauper with fewer friends.”
― Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire

“Caution favours no-one in battle,”
― Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire

“Slave or free, a man is nothing but a pile of bones and flesh with blood in the middle.”
― Christian Cameron, Killer of Men

“Sometimes, the gods are kind. And hubris is the worst of sins.”
― Christian Cameron, Killer of Men

“But on the day after a defeat, the men who matter are the leaders. Anyone can lead men after a victory. Only the best can lead after a defeat.”
― Christian Cameron, Marathon

“If men will seek to compete, they must take the consequences. I do not push myself on others – but ever they will strive against me, and the result is always the same.”
― Christian Cameron, Marathon

“Changes in the heavens wrought changes on the earth.”
― Janet E. Morris, The Sacred Band

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Memories had painful edges that could still cut.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The King's Traitor

“A Hand falls, another rises,”
― Glynn Stewart, Voice of Mars

“Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain’,”
― Glynn Stewart, Alien Arcana

“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Fireblood

“Winter is coming.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“When standing at the gates of hell, one must open the door.”
― Sommer Nectarhoff, The Book of Lokk: Ice and Shadow

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

“I pray that I lose my voice before my tongue ever shames me.”
― Tad Williams, The Heart of What Was Lost