Bitter Gold Hearts Quotes

“...let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.”
― Glen Cook, Bitter Gold Hearts

“Those who survive in this business develop an intuition for when to argue and when not to argue. Smart guys have figured out that you don’t talk back to stormwardens, warlocks, sorcerers, and witches. The place for reservations is tucked neatly behind the teeth.”
― Glen Cook, Bitter Gold Hearts

“Often all we need to be civil with one another is the presence of a referee we don’t want thinking us fools.”
― Glen Cook, Bitter Gold Hearts

“You don’t alter the past, turn the tide, or change yourself by brooding about your hidden motives. You will surprise yourself every time, anyway. Nobody ever figures out why.”
― Glen Cook, Bitter Gold Hearts

“sake.”
― Glen Cook, Bitter Gold Hearts

“Troll?” I squeaked. “Yes.” “He’s got jaws like a saber-tithed tooger. Soobertoothed teegar. The goddamned growly things with the fangs.”
― Glen Cook, Bitter Gold Hearts

“Troublesome as females are when they step out of their proper roles as connivers, manipulators, gossips, backstabbers, and bearers and nurturers of the young, slaughtering them is not an acceptable form of chastisement.”
― Glen Cook, Bitter Gold Hearts