The Cutting Edge Quotes

“People value happiness by what it costs.”
― Dave Duncan, The Cutting Edge

“And as for recreation, variety was a large part of it. Why sing the same song every night when there were so many beautiful melodies around to try? Of”
― Dave Duncan, The Cutting Edge

“In any army Pandemia had ever known, Lesson One had always been Waiting in Line. Lesson Two was Advanced Waiting in Line.”
― Dave Duncan, The Cutting Edge

“but just let me tell you what Kadie did the other day …” Death Bird waited with ill-concealed impatience until Rap’s tale was complete. Without even a smile at the punchline, he launched into a dull and pointless account of how his oldest son, Blood Beak, had killed his first bear.”
― Dave Duncan, The Cutting Edge

“Sometimes at night she would be wakened by thunderclaps of passion from her father in the next room. They terrified and disgusted her, although they were not so nauseating as the underlying slithery hypocrisy of her mother’s acceptance. She’d always thought her mother was the loving one and her father stolid.”
― Dave Duncan, The Cutting Edge

“What’s first-best time to negotiate?” he asked. “When you’re certain to lose. Then you may salvage something, right?”
― Dave Duncan, The Cutting Edge

“a lot of people like cats around to …” Why did people like cats around? “They like cats.”
― Dave Duncan, The Cutting Edge

“In happier circumstances he also would enjoy watching this battle of brains, this scholarly free-for-all, with its air of sharpened quills, gutters running with ink, massacred hypotheses. Already”
― Dave Duncan, The Cutting Edge

“if you can rid your life of realities by night and keep your days as one long dream always, then you will indeed be blessed of the Gods. Gath,”
― Dave Duncan, The Cutting Edge