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She Is the Darkness

She Is the Darkness
Glen Cook

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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“Though it might wear a thousand different names in a thousand different times, and might come from a thousand different directions, darkness always comes.”

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Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 69 (p. 517)

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

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

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“He knew that he had screwed up but he was the kind of guy who, after he shoots his mouth off, cannot back down or admit any failing. The world is full of those people. All of us would be better off if their fathers would strangle them as soon as they showed signs of being that way. This particular fool was willing to sacrifice an army rather than admit his error.”

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Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 30 (p. 368)

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

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

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“I have always found the religious tolerance of the southerners amazing and disconcerting, though it was really only an ancient habit predicated on the fact that no religious community was strong enough to show the rest the errors in their thinking at swordspoint.”

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Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 60 (p. 481)

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

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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.”

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

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“I must be driven. I figured that as long as I had to stay out there I ought to keep scouting around. Working in my sleep. Ought to have the Old Man double my pay. How much is two times a stab in the back?”

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Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 70 (p. 523)

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

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

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“We are not really a godless bunch. We are just the sort who ignore the gods—probably in the unconscious hope that the gods will not notice us.”

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Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 104 (p. 652)

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

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

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““It would take an entire nation a thousand years to build something this vast. No monument so huge can be a good thing.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Only a very great evil could remain so single of purpose, so uncaring of cost, as to create something so ultimately useless.””

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Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 103 (p. 650)

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

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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.””

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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.”

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

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“He jumped down, started waving his arms around while he went to squeaking and squealing in one of those languages wizards use so the rest of us will think there is something terribly strange and mystical about what they do, kind of like lawyers.”

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Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 41 (p. 412)

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“The soldiers stumbled forward doggedly, cursing the bite of the wind while reminding one another that generals are seldom of sound mind and unbesmirched ancestry. They would not be generals if they were.”

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Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 19 (p. 334)

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

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

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“But how do you get rid of a god? Is there any religion where they teach you that? How to get your god off your back if he gets too damned obnoxious? No. All you ever get is advice on how to bribe them to leave you alone for a few minutes.”

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Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 39 (p. 403)

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

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

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