Sweet Silver Blues Quotes

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“Folks always believe their own racism is the result of divine inspiration, incontestably valid.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“Death wish. Suicidal tendencies. Know what causes that, Garrett? Diet. That’s right. Your meat-heavy human diet. You need more roughage. You don’t get enough roughage, your bowels tighten up. When your bowels tighten up you get these dangerous, self-destructive mood swings . . .”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“The appearance of sincerity counts for more than actual truthfulness. People only need to believe for a few minutes at a time.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time. He’s done nothing for so long that nothing is all he can do.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“The first thing I saw was a mottled green face half a yard wide staring through the broken window. I said something intelligent like, “Gleep!” The face grinned. It was a groll, a hybrid of human, troll, and the Beast That Talks that is never named in polite company. I grinned back. Grolls are slow of wit and often quick of temper.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“scruff of the neck and seat of the pants, and ran him out the door to the accompaniment of appropriate old-time remarks about seedy little army types who failed to acknowledge the natural superiority of their overlords, the Marines.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“The river barge "Binkey's Sequin" reminded me of a shopkeeper's wife. She was middle-aged, middle class, a little run down, a little overweight, extremely stubborn and set in her ways, needing masterful coaxing and cajoling to get her to give her loving best, but also faithful and warm and unsinkably optimistic in her care for her children.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues