Top 55 Max Gladstone Quotes
#1. Great demons lived between the stars, and in them, beings immense in power and size, who sucked the marrow from suns and sang songs that drove galaxies mad. There
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#2. Abelard did not look up from the god at his feet.
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#3. She saw what lurked beneath his pleasant, confident exterior: a network of thorns in the shape of a man, a thing that wore him like a suit.
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#4. Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real.
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#5. Justice is like math, anyone can think she knows the answer, but not every answer is right.
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#6. The trouble with atheism," Temoc said, "is that it offers a limited range of curses.
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#7. Knowledge," Tara replied, turning a page as quietly as she could manage, "is power.
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#8. You people get so closed up inside those little brains. Their structure changes in response to thought, you know, like your muscles respond to use. The used parts bulk up. Bad training develops uneven strength; it takes time and painful work to balance unbalanced muscles.
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#9. You live in a grim universe."
"That's risk management for you.
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#10. Your system kills, too. You're not eliminated sacrifices [to gods], you're democratized them - everyone dies a little every day, and the poor and desperate are the worst injured.
We honored our sacrifices in the old days. You sneer at them.
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#11. Riding broomsticks, consorting with unholy powers. Who has the time for such pleasantries anymore? Why, I haven't been on a date since the late eighties.
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#12. Religious men often think about death, and Abelard had given some thought to his last words. "I told you so" had not been on the list. The
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#13. A thousand prickling tender touches lit upon her, as if she was caught in a rainstorm and the raindrops were love.
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#14. You're my son. I love you. You work for godless sorcerers who I'd happily gut on the altar of that pyramid and you are part of a system that will one day destroy our city and our planet, but I still love you.
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#15. He sighed. "There is one thing you must understand about destroying gods, boy." "Only one?" "You must be ready to take their place.
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#16. For half a century he had stood too close to darkness, and some it crept into his bones.
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#17. You wonder at power yoked to service. You wonder because you have come into power young and are learning that power comes through the acceptance of a bond. But if to have power is to be bound, then what is power?
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#18. And she accepted the bridge date from the tentacled horror, with the proviso that her schedule would be inflexible for the next several weeks. Up
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#19. A beast sacred and profane bore him north, with a beautiful, terrifying woman, to defend a city wonderful in its horrors.
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#20. We all think we're on our own side, until the time comes to declare war.
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#21. The brain shuts down, and the soul watches from a distance as the body tumbles at ever-increasing speed toward doom. This is because, though instinct is good at many things, it's stupid about death.
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#22. Contract for Services Rendered, Alt Coulumb Kos Everburning to Royal Iskari Navy," she translated. "Since the common names are all the same, each contract needs a unique reference so we can tell which one we're talking about.
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#23. What can we do in the face of fear? What else, came the whispered reply, but love and trust.
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#24. Of all the screams cataloged in the encyclopedic audio library of the Hidden Schools, Tara's bore the closest resemblance to the scream of a man whose abdomen was being devoured by a jagged-clawed insect that wore a child's face. After
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#25. I've gone from manager to knight in two days. I think I deserve a bump in salary.
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#26. We wait, and we rise; we move, and the earth trembles.
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#27. Humans need to dream, you know. It's how the mind breathes.
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#29. His voice almost undid her. It was exactly as she remembered from school, casual, familiar, polite. Not arrogant, because arrogance implied one had to establish one's superiority. Denovo's voice assumed it.
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#30. You never appreciate things so much as in their absence.
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#31. Engineers: they spend so much time solving physical problems and obeying physical rules, they forget that nonphysical phenomena obey rules every bit as strict. Tara
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#32. We're occupied. We don't tak about it that way, but we are.
We're not occupied. We're a world city. There's a difference.
Are you sure?
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#33. I'm on a quest, I think," he said, not having realised this before. "Or something like one."
"Those went out of fashion a long time ago.
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#34. The bloom shriveled. No matter. Pride was dangerous,
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#35. It's art. If you're looking at it, it's working.
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#36. Xxx you can't escape yourself, and you're the only thing that hurts you in the long run.
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#37. You can win the world, she said, if you're willing to lose your soul.
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#38. Teo had once claimed that human history began with a storm: the interval between lightning and thunder, between flash and rumble felt in the body's core, was primitive man's first experiences of time
the awakening of consciousness, the birth of the gods.
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#39. Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing.
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#41. They found the Infirmary of Justice much as they had left it: white institutional walls, too-bright floors, and a reassuring smell of antiseptic. Reassuring at least to Tara, because the smell signalled that the people running this infirmary knew about antiseptic.
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#42. Tongues and odors mixed on the air: Iskari and motor oil, sweat and leather, Camlaander and Archipelagese and some Shining Empire dialect like silk-muffled cymbals.
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#43. Land lied to the feet, and to the soul. You stand, it whispered, upon unchanging ground. You build upon certainty, and your foundations will never crumble. Ms.
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#44. Never ask a poet to tell you the truth. We have ten different ways to describe a drink of water, and each is true and all lie.
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#45. And pretty is not even the right word. She burns. She's a verb.
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#46. You're talking as if this is an opportunity." "It is. You asked me for an answer, last night. This is it. RKC is dead. Let it rot. Build something new.
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#47. Gods, I love sports. All the excitement of real news, only it doesn't matter so you don't have to worry about it.
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#48. He drinks the life of those who come too close to him. Steals their youth. Also," she said after a pause, "he moisturizes.
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#49. This is our second date."
"Some date. Fighting for our lives."
"We'll be fine," he said, without conviction.
"Yes." She sounded no more certain. "Next time, we'll go someplace nice.
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#50. So you assume we go around painting ourselves with pitch and swooping from rooftops to devour innocents, and call ourselves things like Shale Swiftwing, Beloved of the Goddess, Scout-in-Shadows.
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#51. Be careful. As if something's going to jump us in a library."
"You might be surprised."
"What do you mean?"
"You know how people say a book is really gripping?"
"Don't tell me ... " Cat trailed off.
"Libraries can be dangerous.
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#53. To desperation," he said, and raised his glass. She raised hers as well, toward the altar.
"And to bleeding hearts," she added, and they drank.
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#54. Faith is a state of constant examination and openness. In faith we must be vulnerable. Only in this seeming weakness do we live with God.
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#55. Put not your trust in things, but in men. And women.
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