Priest of Gallows Quotes

“Not for romance, no, but for simple human comfort. Somehow that had been so much sadder. Sometimes we all just need a little comfort,”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Gallows

“We were breaking curfew, of course we were, but then we were two wealthy gentlemen with bodyguards, and although it would never be admitted in public, it was widely known that curfew truly only applied to the working classes”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Gallows

“Ailsa had informed me that all gentlemen played cards. Dice were for conscripts and criminals, apparently, which was probably why I preferred them, on account of having been both of those things.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Gallows

“She would probably have stabbed me if I had tried it, but I had seen the need in her eyes, nonetheless. Not for romance, no, but for simple human comfort. Somehow that had been so much sadder. Sometimes we all just need a little comfort, and are denied it by circumstance and the harshness of the worlds we build around us.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Gallows

“She was clever too, if uneducated, but then clever and educated are very different things.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Gallows

“The memories loomed like pregnant horrors in the darkness, swollen with the ghosts of the dead.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Gallows

“Lies upon lies upon lies, until the common man came to doubt his own recollection of what he had heard and what he thought he knew had happened.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Gallows

“You have to understand, Tomas, that those most prone to misinformation are those most inclined to want to believe it.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Gallows

“a woman is a good deal more important than fucking is, and you can’t feel that with someone you don’t know.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Gallows

“Grachyev was a fool, and I have no time for fools.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Gallows

“Gold, power, influence. Those are the levers that move the world.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Gallows