Glen Cook

"They could imagine no future more grim than their past."

"Raven muttered, “You don’t have to be brilliant to be a god."

"But with royalty you never know. They think differently than real people. The real world never quite seems to reach them."

"He had a distinct problem imagining minds working differently from his own."

"Simple minds respond to simple answers."

"It was a day ripped full-grown from the womb of despair."

"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…"

"I’ve always known people for whom a goal was everything, who never thought nothing about the consequences of the goal achieved."