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41 " His sword took the nearest neatly, because killing fleeing infantryman was an essential part of knightly training, taken for granted, like courage. "
― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)
42 " To the captain, piety came in three brands—false piety, hypocritical piety, and hard won, deep and genuine piety. He fancied that he could tell them apart. "
43 " a battle was a situation where two commanders each thought they had a decisive superiority and one was wrong. "
― Miles Cameron , The Dread Wyrm (The Traitor Son Cycle, #3)
44 " It should come as no surprise that they are threatened by those who make war a profession. We don’t need to be manly or brave. All we have to do is win. There is no second place, and we get paid just as well whether we lose half our men or lose no men. "
― Miles Cameron , The Fell Sword (The Traitor Son Cycle, #2)
45 " Not my enemy! Not my problem.(Red Knight) "
― Miles Cameron , A Plague of Swords (The Traitor Son Cycle, #4)
46 " Aranthur had a moment to savour the odd feeling of another warrior’s absolute faith. "
― Miles Cameron , Bright Steel (Masters & Mages, #3)
47 " No time like the present,” Helewise said. “It’s the work you don’t start that never gets done. "
48 " You take it all for granted,” he said. He sounded as if he was angry—or if he might weep. “It’s bloody good, this thing we have. But you forget it’s not natural. You expect everyone to cooperate with the law. To make the law work.” Duke took a deep breath. “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.” He looked at his feet. “If enough men are greedy, and willing to lie to get what they want?” He raised his head and faced them. “Then it’s easy. Their way is easy. And you lot will sit here and debate. When the only real answer is to arm, go out in the streets, and fucking kill every Guardsman and every Galle on every corner until we hold the city. "
49 " tiltyards. "
50 " It’s never the last time. It’s one day at a time, all the way. Never the last battle. Just another goddamned battle. You used to think you was cursed by God. An’ now, I note, you think mayhap you was chosen by God. An’ I say...mayhap you’re just another one, and the last, desperate throw is all in your wee head.” She met his eyes the way she had not in a year or more. “Wed your lass. I like her. Make some babies. Drink some wine. Fuck the end of the world. It’s overrated. Let the dragons and the little wee worms go hang. No matter what we do, some git like your Morgon Mortirmir will stick his pissle in the crack of doom and our kids will have to do it all again. "
51 " Hate is easy. Fear is easy. Love takes work. "
― Miles Cameron
52 " Vetronius’s Gladius Capitalis. Heraklitus’s θανατηϕóρα σπαθί.” Sister Anna winced at his pronunciation of High Archaic, which was the Alban and not the local Morean. "
53 " On the bottom row were the bases of his power—represented "
54 " 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. "
55 " And then, like the end of a kiss, he was himself. "
56 " We bring you no peace, but a company of swords, my lady.” He grinned at his own misquote of scripture. “We don’t make the violence. We merely deal with it as it comes to us.” “The devil can quote scripture,” she said. “No doubt he had his hand in writing it,” the captain shot back. "
57 " Everything in this world is terror,” the old man said. “If you care to see it that way. "
58 " Fuck it Gabriel. We almost lost it all, and Kronmir that slippery bastard, held 'em. In his wee head. 'Til he died. Bad Tom was looking out at the falling darkness. Mayhap the bravest fuckin' thing I've ever heard. "
― Miles Cameron , The Fall of Dragons (The Traitor Son Cycle, #5)
59 " He was one of the kindest of the masters—until he felt he had been ignored. "
60 " What makes men so dangerous is that we are too stupid to know we are beaten. "