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1 " War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon. "
― Miles Cameron , The Dread Wyrm (The Traitor Son Cycle, #3)
2 " Later in the night, Nell brought two of the company mutts up from the stables. It took her almost an hour to find the horses, and more time to find the stall where the dogs had been penned. Then she lost her way coming back through the endless corridors and the mutts tried to bite an Ordinary.Everything is an adventure when you're a page. "
― Miles Cameron , The Fell Sword (The Traitor Son Cycle, #2)
3 " 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. "
― Miles Cameron , A Plague of Swords (The Traitor Son Cycle, #4)
4 " All the best romances bloom in the midst of a good siege. "
― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)
5 " Never make a plan more complicated than your ability to communicate it. "
6 " 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. "
7 " Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live. "
8 " 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. "
9 " Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live. And that is as true for my kind as for yours. "
10 " But all you have to do is lie. If enough people lie, all the time, then there isn’t enough truth for law to work. That’s how I see it. "
11 " Those who have known pain should have mercy on others. "
12 " Sauce grinned. 'Anytime, baby,' she said.'We could make that our motto,' allowed the Captain. "
13 " The essence of warfare is to force the pace and hope your enemy makes a mistake. "
14 " May I leave you with some genuine wisdom, in place of all the humdrum claptrap? Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live. "
15 " The devil can quote scripture,” she said. “No doubt he had his hand in writing it,” the captain shot back. "
16 " Dariusz felt something like admiration for the Red Knight. They clearly read the same books. "
17 " 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? "
18 " Jamie, to the best of my understanding, anything you do to help a woman who needs help is chivalry. In this case, that’s ploughing. "
19 " My da—” Diccon looked at the ground. “… my da calls me ‘Bent.’” Robin smiled. “No. Sorry, Diccon. It’s a good name, but a master archer had it and it died with him. Got another?” “My mother calls me a God-Damned Fool,” Diccon said with a smile. “Good, you’ll fit right in. "
20 " He could take some extra fencing lessons. He was in love with his sword, purchased in a used clothing market on a whim. With his rent money, because he was a fool. "
― Miles Cameron , Cold Iron (Masters & Mages, #1)