Miles Cameron Quotes

The Mega Ducas accepted communion and did not burst into flames. Wilful Murder lost a small amount of money over it.

Not my enemy! Not my problem.
(Red Knight)

Sauce grinned. 'Anytime, baby,' she said.
'We could make that our motto,' allowed the Captain.

Dariusz felt something like admiration for the Red Knight. They clearly read the same books.

Do you know that in the Archaic Empire, the Master of Spies referred to every agent by the name of a flower or an animal or some such - never by their own names. Not even their sexes were known."
"Sex?" asked Guisarme. "We wouldn't use women as spies, would we?"
There was the briefest pause, as there always is when a dozen men realise that one of their number is a fool.

Ser Tomaso," she said. "It is very likely we will all die."
"Or worse," said Brown, the first words he'd said in days. Ser Tomaso made a brave face.
"Perhaps," he said. "But we will eat well.

If there is a god, how can he allow so much fucking misery and deserve my thanks for it?

And then, like the end of a kiss, he was himself.

He does the good works already, Arn. He merely does them while cursing God." He leaned over. "While you sinned while praising God.

It was the crossbows that decided Turkos, although his decision was almost too fast to be described as thought.
Even as they emerged from the shadow to gloat over their prisoners, he reared his horse - his precious horse, that he loved, Athena.
She reared obediently, and her broad stomach and long neck took all six of the crossbow bolts meant for him. And because she was all heart, she landed on four feet and continued forward after her iron-shod forefeet crushed the skulls of two warriors.
And then she fell.

There are different types of soldier. Some men are trained to stand under fire, waiting for their turn to inflict death. Others are like hunters, slipping from cover to cover.

Never make a plan more complicated than your ability to communicate it.

Save them, save them all. In doing so, brother, you will save yourself.

The essence of warfare is to force the pace and hope your enemy makes a mistake.

These Outwallers that killed Hector - the Sossag - they were serving a Power of the Wild called Thorn. Aye?"
"Naming calls. But yes." The captain drank.
"So I call him and he comes and I gut him," Tom said. "So?

The tiny imaginary audience inside his head did not exist; no one watches our life movies.

The Red Knight sighed. 'Sometimes I think you all take me for granted,' he said and went off to wash the blood off his hands.

On the bottom row were the bases of his power - represented

No time like the present," Helewise said. "It's the work you don't start that never gets done.

I will be glad, too, when I have some gladness in me.

All the best romances bloom in the midst of a good siege.

Those who have known pain should have mercy on others.

Listen up, then. Evil is a choice. It is a choice. Doing the wicked thing is the easy way out, and it is habit forming. I've done it.

It had been done to leave terror. It was almost artistic.

He was flooded with power - power like pain. When it rises beyond any possible point of pleasure - like victory. Like defeat, like hopelessness and hope. And he stayed there, for an eternity, balanced between all and nothing.
Like love when love is too much to bear.' - The Red Knight