The Hunters' Haunt Quotes

“We were not mad youngsters, but love is not confined to the young. Indeed, true love is a phenomenon of middle age, for only then can one be sure that what one feels is not all lust. Passion is a product of love, not its source. Why do the young never see this?”
― Dave Duncan, The Hunters' Haunt

“wars are like love affairs—easy to start, hard to end, and outrageously expensive.”
― Dave Duncan, The Hunters' Haunt

“But not all its avenues were paved with marble nor all its denizens dwellers in palaces. Men and women of a dozen races huddled in slums and tenements, in putrid alleys the rich never saw. For centuries, a human stream had trickled into the cesspits of Algazan: adventurers come to seek their fortunes, refugees from political oppression, malcontents yearning after their own gods. Few had prospered, most had sunk into dismal poverty. Their descendants congealed in lumps beneath the surface of society, enclaves of foreigners existing under uneasy tolerance—distinct from the natives, banned from the benefits of citizenship.”
― Dave Duncan, The Hunters' Haunt

“Preparing for war, as was well known in other lands but perhaps not then in that one, is usually a self-fulfilling precaution.”
― Dave Duncan, The Hunters' Haunt

“The people learned that they could grumble without being disloyal, because the ministers were not beloved kings above reproach, but only rather stupid people like themselves, probably even more stupid. The ministers discovered that office had undoubted advantages, but they knew they would not be reelected unless they governed well, so mostly they tried their best. Each kept watch that none of the others got away with more than he did, and this kept corruption within limits.”
― Dave Duncan, The Hunters' Haunt