Miles Cameron Quotes & Sayings

All the best romances bloom in the midst of a good siege. — Miles Cameron

And then, like the end of a kiss, he was himself. — Miles Cameron

He was one of the kindest of the masters - until he felt he had been ignored. — Miles Cameron

If there is a god, how can he allow so much fucking misery and deserve my thanks for it? — Miles Cameron

Jamie, to the best of my understanding, anything you do to help a woman who needs help is chivalry. In this case, that's ploughing. — Miles Cameron

Those who have known pain should have mercy on others. — Miles Cameron

Save them, save them all. In doing so, brother, you will save yourself. — Miles Cameron

No time like the present," Helewise said. "It's the work you don't start that never gets done. — Miles Cameron

Not my enemy! Not my problem.
(Red Knight) — Miles Cameron

Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live. And that is as true for my kind as for yours. — Miles Cameron

May I leave you with some genuine wisdom, in place of all the humdrum claptrap? Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live. — Miles Cameron

These Outwallers that killed Hector - the Sossag - they were serving a Power of the Wild called Thorn. Aye?"
"Naming calls. But yes." The captain drank.
"So I call him and he comes and I gut him," Tom said. "So? — Miles Cameron

Sauce grinned. 'Anytime, baby,' she said.
'We could make that our motto,' allowed the Captain. — Miles Cameron

He does the good works already, Arn. He merely does them while cursing God." He leaned over. "While you sinned while praising God. — Miles Cameron

Later in the night, Nell brought two of the company mutts up from the stables. It took her almost an hour to find the horses, and more time to find the stall where the dogs had been penned. Then she lost her way coming back through the endless corridors and the mutts tried to bite an Ordinary.
Everything is an adventure when you're a page. — Miles Cameron

Victory in war is usually the result of compromising what you want and behaving like those you despise." - Tapio — Miles Cameron

Never make a plan more complicated than your ability to communicate it. — Miles Cameron

He was flooded with power - power like pain. When it rises beyond any possible point of pleasure - like victory. Like defeat, like hopelessness and hope. And he stayed there, for an eternity, balanced between all and nothing.
Like love when love is too much to bear.' - The Red Knight — Miles Cameron

Ser Tomaso," she said. "It is very likely we will all die."
"Or worse," said Brown, the first words he'd said in days. Ser Tomaso made a brave face.
"Perhaps," he said. "But we will eat well. — Miles Cameron

Dariusz felt something like admiration for the Red Knight. They clearly read the same books. — Miles Cameron

On the bottom row were the bases of his power - represented — Miles Cameron

Listen up, then. Evil is a choice. It is a choice. Doing the wicked thing is the easy way out, and it is habit forming. I've done it. — Miles Cameron

The tiny imaginary audience inside his head did not exist; no one watches our life movies. — Miles Cameron

War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon. — Miles Cameron

The essence of warfare is to force the pace and hope your enemy makes a mistake. — Miles Cameron

It was the crossbows that decided Turkos, although his decision was almost too fast to be described as thought.
Even as they emerged from the shadow to gloat over their prisoners, he reared his horse - his precious horse, that he loved, Athena.
She reared obediently, and her broad stomach and long neck took all six of the crossbow bolts meant for him. And because she was all heart, she landed on four feet and continued forward after her iron-shod forefeet crushed the skulls of two warriors.
And then she fell. — Miles Cameron

The devil can quote Scripture," she said.
"No doubt he had his hand in writing it," the captain shot back. - The Red Knight — Miles Cameron

It had been done to leave terror. It was almost artistic. — Miles Cameron

There are different types of soldier. Some men are trained to stand under fire, waiting for their turn to inflict death. Others are like hunters, slipping from cover to cover. — Miles Cameron

The Red Knight sighed. 'Sometimes I think you all take me for granted,' he said and went off to wash the blood off his hands. — Miles Cameron