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Water Sleeps

Water Sleeps

Water Sleeps is the eighth 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.


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“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”

Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 87 (p. 314)

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“Desperate people will do what they must to survive. Only a fool would expect the results to be pretty.”

Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 6 (p. 31)

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“Time is the most wicked of all villains.”

Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 5 (p. 25)

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“Like most villains, he was wicked only most of the time and mainly in small-minded ways.”

Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 7 (p. 34)

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“Soldiers live. And wonder why.”

Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 60 (p. 212; repeated on p. 356)

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“I must be alive. Otherwise I wouldn’t hurt so much.”

Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 91 (p. 328)

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“I sped a prayer heavenward. God needs to be reminded.”

Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 75 (p. 265)

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