How much blood was being made to flow for that last show of elegance?
C.S. FriedmanTag: coldfire-trilogy
The gods, he knows now, will not help mankind. If they even exist—which he is no longer certain of—it is clear they do not care what happens. Perhaps they will even applaud when the last monuments of the Second Age of Kings crumble to dust, and the men who once worshiped them are reduced to the level of beasts. Perhaps that is what they intended all along.
C.S. FriedmanCivilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.
C.S. FriedmanTag: sci-fi political-science
What is a child?" he asks her.
The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.
I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).
C.S. FriedmanOnly in summer-phase is it carnivorous.”
If there was an award for understatement, I thought, the Tyr would trounce all competition.
Tag: scifi great-quotes understatements
My identity is without root.
C.S. FriedmanTag: scifi great-context
The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand the nature of human aesthetic sense … and then failed, miserably, in every regard.
C.S. FriedmanTag: scifi irony great-context
We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward.” … “Mine is less so, but you will serve it. Come.
C.S. FriedmanTag: scifi understatements great-context great-quote
All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?
C.S. FriedmanTag: fear dark danger short-sentences
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