158 Quotes by Richard K. Morgan

Running away just makes your arse a bigger target.

Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand," Ringil said quietly.

Strange how you could become a man's god without noticing.

Yes, and had your hotel proved slightly less psychotic, matters would never have got as far out of hand as they have.

Take up citizenship and the conversion it entailed, send a couple of your sons to the levy when they were of age, pay taxes calculated not to drive you and your family into penury or the mountains and the life of a bandit. Oh, and while you’re at it, steer clear of debt and disease. Chances were — mostly — if you did all that, you’d never starve, never have your home burned down and your children raped before your eyes, never have to wear a slave collar.

Rage at injustice is a forest fire — it jumps all divides,even those between generations.

... I felt a cold circle of metal touch the base of my skull."That's exactly what you think it is," a calm voice said. "Yo do the wrong thing, and the cops are going to be picking bits of your cortical stack out of that wall for weeks.

Well.” Ringil gave the Throne Eternal captain another brittle little smile. “You know, the thing about fucking is, it’s a lot less wear and tear than trying to kill each other with bits of steel. And it’s the sort of thing that does tend to lead to confidences and favours if you play it right. Ask any woman, she’ll tell you that. Unless of course your experiences in that direction are limited, as, come to think of it, yours probably are, to whores and rape.

The echo of the first shot, like the first sip of whiskey, burning...