Glen Cook

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

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

"Time is the most wicked of all villains."

"Time is the enemy whose patience can’t be exhausted."

"Against the years all men campaign in vain."

"“We all do that. In every day life it’s called making excuses.” True, raw motives are too rough to swallow. By the time most people reach my age, they have glossed their motives so often and so well t…"

"Though it might wear a thousand different names in a thousand different times, and might come from a thousand different directions, darkness always comes."

"Old folks called the winter a harbinger of worse to come. But old folks always see today’s weather as more harsh than that of yore. Or milder. Never, never the same."