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Book cover for Chronicles of the Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1-3)

Chronicles of the Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1-3) by Glen Cook

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There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

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“Religious wars are no fun. The faculty of reasoning that permitted surrender did not apply in such instances.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

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“I found it interesting that those who believed themselves righteous only ever cared about those who agreed with them, and were keen to let those who didn’t suffer whatever brutal fate. There seemed to me an inherent hypocrisy in faith itself.”
― Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

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“There are different kinds of suffering, Valentina thought. The kind that takes you by surprise and the kind you live with so long, you stop noticing it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

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“extinction of those loved ones from the heart’s memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

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“would much rather do battle with a sworn enemy than with an enemy who finds expediency in posing as a friend.”
― Daniel Silva, The Kill Artist

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