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1 " No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny. "
― Glen Cook , The White Rose (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #3)
2 " I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was, and probably will be, is shaped by my passion to evade the end of me. "
3 " The only exercise I get is jumping to conclusions. "
4 " I cry for a little girl's dreams. I cry because the dreams will not die, though I am powerless to make them come true. "
5 " I guess I was getting blasé about windwhale-riding. "
6 " The age is sorrowfully short of characters of the magnificently villainous vitality of those the Dominator took in olden times: Soulcatcher, the Hanged Man, Nightcrawler, Shapeshifter, the Limper, and such. Those were nastymen of the grand scope, nearly as wild and hairy in their wickedness as the Lady and Dominator themselves. "
7 " One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism. "
8 " No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods aremegalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshipers’ description. I don’t see how they could survive their own insanity. But it’s not impossible that human beingsare incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape theworld. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny. "
