
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 87, “Glittering Stone: Fortress with No Name” (p. 639)
Soldiers Live is the ninth 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, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history.
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 87, “Glittering Stone: Fortress with No Name” (p. 639)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 99, “By the Military Cemetery: Missing Persons” (p. 664)
Context: “It doesn’t make much sense, does it?” my darling whispered to me. “People go at the oddest times and from the oddest causes.”
“Soldiers live,” I muttered.
“You’re turning that into a mantra.”
“You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you’re glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why.”
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 135, “Taglios: The Mad Season” (p. 747)
“The thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.”
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 5, “An Abode of Ravens: Headquarters” (p. 384)
“She was not listening. If she listened she would have to hear uncomfortable truths.”
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 72, “Midway Between: The Rescuers” (p. 596)
“Hatreds seldom are constrained to rational scales.”
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 5, “An Abode of Ravens: Headquarters” (p. 382)
“Generating rumors is one thing even the most inept armed force does exceedingly well.”
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 78, “Midway Between: Bad News” (p. 615)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 80, “The Taglian Territories: In Camp” (p. 620)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 8, “Taglios: Trouble Follows” (p. 389)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 131, “Around Taglios: Aerial Recon” (p. 736)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 5, “An Abode of Ravens: Headquarters” (p. 383)
“All is not lost. But neither is it found.”
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 133, “Glittering Stone: A Dangerous Game” (p. 741)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 10, “An Abode of Ravens: Recovery” (p. 397)
“It was the wee hours of the morning, when even the heartbeat of the world had trouble thumping on.”
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 104, “Taglios: View from the Protector’s Windows” (p. 676)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 126, “Taglios: Royal Return” (p. 720)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 38, “The Taglian Territories: The Dandha Presh” (p. 502)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 33, “Khatovar: Leave-taking” (p. 488)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 48, “The Shadowgate: The Warlords of the Air” (p. 530)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 43, “The Taglian Shadowlands: The Shadowgate” (p. 514)
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 139, “Taglios: The Great General” (p. 762)