Delegat

“be headed elsewhere before she started. You mess with people’s religion and you mess with fire. Even people who don’t much give a damn. Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.”
― Glen Cook, Chronicles of The Black Company

“Oh, it’s always about the army with you. Order more boots.’ ‘That’s just it – I need more money.’ ‘Bugg, give him more money.’ ‘How much, sire?’ ‘Whatever he needs for the boots and whatnot.’ ‘It’s not boots,’ said Brys. ‘It’s training.’ ‘They’re going to train without boots? Extraordinary.”
― Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams

“A truly successful leader is a reluctant leader. Not one whose every word is greeted with frenzied cheering either – after all, what happens to the mind of such a leader, after such scenes are repeated again and again? A growing certainty, a belief in one’s own infallibility, and onward goes the march into disaster.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

“Rucket is there, too,’ said Bugg, ‘with a petition from the Rat Catchers’ Guild.’ ‘A petition? For what, more rats?”
― Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams