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She Is the Darkness

She Is the Darkness

She Is The Darkness is the seventh novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit called The Black Company through forty years of its approximately four hundred year history.


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“The best of the diviner breed are never wrong because they never set anything in stone.”

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 79 (p. 555)

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“He had gained all the power he had dreamed of then—and had not known a moment of peace since.”

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 5 (p. 288)

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“Ignorance is a chink in the armor a knowledgeable enemy can exploit at will.”

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 54 (p. 462)

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“Time has a way of blunting the sharpest edge of determination.”

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 55 (p. 466)

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“We are all the sum total of our pasts, good and evil.”

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 95 (p. 614)

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““I still got all my limbs and I’m still breathing.”
“Makes you a winner in the soldiering game.””

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 78 (p. 550)

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“It is a saying of my people. Even Water sleeps. But Enemy never rests.”

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 79 (p. 554)

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“Somebody a lot smarter than me once said, “Put no trust in wizards.””

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 78 (p. 550)

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“He had a distinct problem imagining minds working differently from his own.”

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 12 (p. 314)

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“That was not an exaggeration, that was an outright fabrication.”

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 9 (p. 304)

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“They (i. e., the peasants) could imagine no future more grim than their past.”

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 86 (p. 575)

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