Mary Gentle > Quotes

“War doesn’t have a kingdom,” she said. “War belongs to the whole world. Come on, my little scarlet Horseman. Have a drink.”
― Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History

“All warriors are brothers in arms, whether they fight for the Light or the Dark. We are fated always to make war on our own kind.”
― Mary Gentle, Grunts

“Very little,” Ash said honestly. “I’d believe very little you told me.”

“Because I’m a traitor, in your eyes?”

“No,” she said. “Because you’re a traitor in your eyes.”
― Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History

“There aren’t any ‘warriors’ on a battlefield.” Her scornful voice ran on, trembling, in rough Carthaginian, and she let it: “There’s you and your buddy, and you and your mates, and you and your boss. A lance. The smallest unit on the field is eight or ten men. Nobody’s a hero on their own. One man alone out there is dead meat.”
― Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History

“There comes a time’, the White Crow said, ‘when you can’t smell the air of any kind of a day without it bringing some other past day to mind. When that happens, you’re not old, but you’re no longer young.”
― Mary Gentle, Rats and Gargoyles

“La couleur du courage, c'est le brun”
― Mary Gentle, The Wild Machines

“But you are breaking the law!"
"Yes. I am. Take this message to your masters – your Faris: I will continue to break the law, at all times, if the law is wrong." Stilted, and still a little pompous, Charles of Burgundry said, "Honour is above Law. Honour and chivalry demand we protect the weak. It would be morally wrong to give the woman to you, when every man listening here knows that you will butcher her.”
― Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History