The White Rose is the third 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.
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 2, “The Plain of Fear” (p. 456)
Context: An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.
“Dawn comes early when you wish it would not. The hours flash when you want them to drag.”
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 56, “Time Fading” (p. 686)
“She is not one to disdain truth indefinitely only because it is unpleasant.”
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 42, “Homecoming” (p. 639)
Glen Cook book The White Rose
“Maybe. We’re all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouting into the jaws of eternity. But it seems so damned unfair!”
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 39, “A Guest at Charm” (p. 625)
“Bomanz had lived his lies so long he often lied to himself.”
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 7, “The Second Letter” (p. 476)
“The light overcame the shadow. But as always, the shadow left its taint on the victors.”
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 43, “Picnic” (p. 645)
““Can you read?”
I nodded.
“Rules are posted over there. You got two choices. Obey them. Or be dead.””
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 28, “To the Barrowland” (p. 576)
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 49, “The Invisible Maze” (p. 666)
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 12, “The Plain of Fear” (p. 506)
“One’s own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.”
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 8, “The Barrowland” (p. 481)
“You can’t get out of getting old. You can’t get out of having a relationship change.”
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 10, “Bomanz’s Story” (p. 497)
“You know you’re getting old when everything aggravates you.”
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 10, “Bomanz’s Story” (p. 491)
“The only exercise I get is jumping to conclusions.”
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 39, “A Guest at Charm” (p. 622)
Glen Cook book The White Rose
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 39, “A Guest at Charm” (pp. 624-625)
