Brian McClellan Quotes

I pretended I was a Kez colonel pretending to be an Adran colonel," Olem said. "It was disturbingly easy."
"They didn't ask for papers or proof?"
"In this rain?" Olem gestured at the downpour. "You don't understand an enlisted man, sir. Nobody asks for bloody papers in this kind of weather.

The age of kings is dead, Adamat, and I have killed it.

The minutiae of the common man is the grease that slicks the gears of civilization. She

For Dad For never being hesitant that I'd make it this far. Even when you should have been.

He was a longtime street thug who had just enough ruthlessness to rise to legitimate businesses and not quite enough intelligence to leave his dark life behind him. Aptly suited as a banker.

I have the feeling you would much rather be on the front than in Adopest trying to win over the snakes in politics. At least here you're allowed to shoot your enemies.

First rule of bathing," Gavril said. "If you can't smell yourself anymore, it's time to wash.

Promise me."
"No."
Etan's eyes were glassy with tears. "Coward. If I were dying, you'd promise me. Because you wouldn't have to answer to me then. But I'm not dying, and you won't promise it. Bloody coward.

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A king's pride doesn't fill the people's bellies.

I'm an investigator, my dear. Other people's business is my business.

Expecting defeat will surely bring it

Tamas had heard that every genius was equal parts madness. He

God' is a funny word, it implies omnipotence and omniscience. Let me assure, I am neither.

Styke's people were outnumbered two to one. The Dynize, he decided, should have brought more men.

Even if you are a pompous ass with no respect for authority, you're worth fifty men, and I mean to see you in my army."
"That was an incredibly backhanded compliment."
"I meant every word.

You missed the morning's festivities," Bo said to Adamat. "You call torturing a man 'festivities'?" Adamat asked. "I'm not a good person," Bo said.

At what point have you ever gotten the impression that there are good people in the royal cabal?"
"You've given me that impression. Yes. You have."
"Well, get past it. Because I'm not a good man. Not in the slightest. I just pay my debts.

When a man solved his problems by punching them, books were often a foreign thing.

The lockpick gaped up at Adamat from his knees. "You're making enough noise, you might as well have knocked on the front door," Adamat said.

Let the Kez come," Tamas roared. "Let them send their greatest generals after us. Let them stack the odds against us. Let them come upon us with all their fury, because these hounds at our heels will soon know we are lions!

There is nothing that will make a man more desperate and more capable of violence than endangering his family.

Fancy has nothing to do with a good sword.

I believed it had been long enough that Kresimir would never return. I believed it was time for change. I thought all of Rozalia's concerns were foolish, and that Julene was living in the past. I believed we were alone."
"My people have never been alone," Mihali said. "The others may have left. I did not.

You know," Taniel said, "we could have kept firing after they sounded the retreat. Would have wiped out thousands on the mountainside. The Kez did that to us in Fatrasta a few times."
Gavril snorted angrily. "War has to have some decorum. Otherwise it's back to the Bleakening for all of us, and Kresimir be damned.

He had an honest face, though Adamat found that honest faces were almost always deceptive.