Shadow of a Dark Queen Quotes

“Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's little victories.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shadow of a Dark Queen

“Why? Why do you care what happens to scum like them?'

De Loungville moved his horse alongside Erik's, so he was almost nose-to-nose with Erik when he answered. 'I don't care what happens to scum like them. You could cut off a piece at a time over a week and I wouldn't give a whore's promise for what it would do to them. But I do care what it would do to you, Erik.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shadow of a Dark Queen

“All right, me darlings. You heard the Captain. Look around and tell ol'Biggo what you thieving rascals grabbed when you ran for your lives!”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shadow of a Dark Queen

“there was no answer he knew, until he actually faced death.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shadow of a Dark Queen

“The sun had burned off whatever morning fog and low clouds had gripped the city, and now a glorious fall day was upon them. Warm sunlight caressed his face as cool ocean breezes carried the sound of gulls and the tang of salt. He remembered the stab of pain he had felt when he had thought he would not see the day, and the terror and panic that had gripped him as rough hands had placed him upon the gallows returned. Erik felt a choking sensation in his own chest, and suddenly, without any ability to control it, he began to weep. Roo”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shadow of a Dark Queen

“When you lose everything,” Nathan had said, “you’ve nothing left to lose. You’ve got two choices then: either kill yourself or start building a new life. When I started this new life, without my family, I decided the only sensible thing in it was to live for the small rewards: a job well done, a beautiful sunrise, the sound of children laughing at play, a good cup of wine. Makes it easy to deal with the harsher side of life. “Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life’s little victories.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shadow of a Dark Queen

“Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun; When the grasp on the bow was decision, And arrow and hand and eye were one; When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer, Came heaving for rapture ahead!— Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer As lights over mounds of the dead. —GEORGE MEREDITH
“Ode to Youth in Memory”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shadow of a Dark Queen

“I’m older than I’ve ever been before in my life.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shadow of a Dark Queen