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Water Sleeps

Water Sleeps
Glen Cook

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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“Leadership tip: Sound confident even when you have no idea. Just do not make a habit of it. They will find you out.”

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Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 87 (p. 313)

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“Peace had broken out and was being enthusiastically exploited on the presumption that it could not possibly last.”

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Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 59 (p. 206)

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“I picked up my five cards from the next deal. “This ain’t a hand, it’s a foot.””

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Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 10 (p. 48)

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“Asking a storyteller not to embellish is like asking a fish to give up water.”

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Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 32 (p. 118)

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““I don’t get the Kina story. If she died back at the beginning of the world, how could she be giving us trouble for the last twenty or thirty years?”
“It’s religion, dimwit,” Goblin barked. “It don’t got to make sense.””

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Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 15 (pp. 68-69)