Priest of Crowns Quotes

“Tactics win skirmishes, strategies win battles.
And logistics win wars.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Crowns

“Tradition’ is a word that often means ‘performative horseshit’, I have found,”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Crowns

“The only thing he hadn’t been able to legislate against was a madman with fanatically loyal followers and an absolute shitload of high explosives. That would be me.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Crowns

“acting the respectable gentleman had been chafing at me. I found I much preferred to be a disreputable gentleman.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Crowns

“Being out after curfew was punishable with a fine brutal enough to send any commoner straight to debtor’s gaol, but ‘punishable with a fine’ means ‘legal for rich people’ and it always has done, so there were no concerns there.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Crowns

“Are y’awake?’ Jochan slurred, without lifting his head from the table. From his voice it sounded like he was still very drunk. ‘Aye,’ I said, although in truth I felt like I was in some sort of indeterminate state between life and death.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Crowns

“It’s a thing that has to be understood about hired blades: they’re in it for the money, and you don’t get paid if you’re dead. They will fight for you, aye, but they probably won’t die for you.”
― Peter McLean, Priest of Crowns