Return of the Crimson Guard Quotes

“Battle is for an army to win or lose; war is for civilization to win or lose.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“Do not apologize. Offer sarcasm.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“Only the dead should be certain of anything.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“When one considers such ancient times one's only recourse is the language of poetry. Thus legends, myths, creation accounts, history. All are no more than stories shaped to justify the present appearance of things.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“Sarge?’ ‘What?’ ‘I was thinkin’—’ ‘How many times I gotta tell you not to do that, son. Bad for your health.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“- I blame the drink, sir.
- You wouldn't have any of it left, would you?
- Used it to poison the enemy, sir
- And a sad waste it was too
- The bottle got a promotion out of it though, sir”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“You man that tiller day and night. Won't you rest?'
Ereko lightly laughed the suggestion aside. ‘No, lad. I am so old now that sleeping and waking have melded together into one and I know not which I inhabit.'
Watching the lad struggle through that, Ereko shifted course slightly to avoid a looming ice-spire.
'Truly? So old? As old as the mountains?'
Ereko raised his brows. ‘Goodness, no. Not that old. Only half so old, I should think.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“Begin a campaign of mutual suspicion and disinformation that will leave them unable to recognize the truth.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“Yet strings go both ways and even a puppet, should it gather enough strength to itself, can reverse the pull.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“If he had learned anything from observing these struggles it was that new generations arose to slavishly take up the prejudices and goals of the old.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“The wise learn more from their enemies than fools learn from their friends.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“I am not dismayed. It is a sure sign of success when everyone wants your head.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“Battle is for an army to win or lose; war is for civilization to win or lose. Wisdom”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard

“The perfume of power. The musk of money? He frowned. Well, no, maybe not that one.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard