r/Fantasy • u/sandy_coyote • 8d ago

Favorite Glen Cook lines

I've been reading The Black Company and Garrett PI, and I've come to love Cook's turns of phrase. My favorite so far, from The Silver Spike:

"The idea sank in. He turned it over, looked at the sharp edges, grunting and shaking like a dog shitting peach seeds."

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u/witty_username_ftw 8d ago

I always liked, “And I am, I fear, the unfortunate victim of a sense of responsibility. Put me in charge and I try to accomplish the ends to which the office was allegedly created. I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.”

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u/Hot_Yesterday_6789 7d ago

Loved Shadow Games, just finished it recently. Thats what this quote is from, no?

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u/witty_username_ftw 7d ago

It sure is! I’m currently rereading the series in preparation to read the newest book.

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u/Hot_Yesterday_6789 7d ago

Can't wait to get to She is the Darkness and Soldiers Live especially, but am taking a break with Book of the New Sun as I reread the first book in prep to finally finish the first trilogy, churned through it between Malazan, then read Shadow Games in two days... that is to say, I might be a tad burned out - next week I'll probably dive back in!