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The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1) QUOTES

The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1) QUOTES

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

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

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

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

3 " 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. "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

4 " Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live. "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

5 " 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. "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

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

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

7 " 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. "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

8 " The devil can quote scripture,” she said.

“No doubt he had his hand in writing it,” the captain shot back. "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

9 " 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? "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

10 " 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. "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

11 " Gelfred,’ the captain said, with a bitter smile. ‘God doesn’t give a fuck.’ Their "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

12 " The devil can quote Scripture," she said.
"No doubt he had his hand in writing it," the captain shot back. "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

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

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

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

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

15 " Men tire quickly when they are scared. A patrol in hostile terrain is the most tiring thing a soldier can do short of violence. "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

16 " 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)

17 " 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. "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

18 " 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. "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

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

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)

20 " 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. "

― Miles Cameron , The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)