The Crimson Campaign Quotes

“You missed the morning’s festivities,” Bo said to Adamat. “You call torturing a man ‘festivities’?” Adamat asked. “I’m not a good person,” Bo said.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“Even if you are a pompous ass with no respect for authority, you're worth fifty men, and I mean to see you in my army."

"That was an incredibly backhanded compliment."

"I meant every word.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“First rule of bathing,” Gavril said. “If you can’t smell yourself anymore, it’s time to wash.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“One man always makes a difference. Sometimes it’s a small one. Other times, he tips a war.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“I have the feeling you would much rather be on the front than in Adopest trying to win over the snakes in politics. At least here you’re allowed to shoot your enemies.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“There is nothing that will make a man more desperate and more capable of violence than endangering his family.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“Let the Kez come,” Tamas roared. “Let them send their greatest generals after us. Let them stack the odds against us. Let them come upon us with all their fury, because these hounds at our heels will soon know we are lions!”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“At what point have you ever gotten the impression that there are good people in the royal cabal?"

"You've given me that impression. Yes. You have."

"Well, get past it. Because I'm not a good man. Not in the slightest. I just pay my debts.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“God' is a funny word, it implies omnipotence and omniscience. Let me assure, I am neither.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“He took my family,” Adamat said. “Blackmailed me, and he still has my wife and oldest son. I want to get them back, and then kill him slowly.”
“A lot of violence planned, for a family man,” the eunuch said.
Adamat leaned forward. “‘Family,’” he said. “Remember that word. There is nothing that will make a man more desperate and more capable of violence than endangering his family.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“I pretended I was a Kez colonel pretending to be an Adran colonel,” Olem said. “It was disturbingly easy.”
“They didn’t ask for papers or proof?”
“In this rain?” Olem gestured at the downpour. “You don’t understand an enlisted man, sir. Nobody asks for bloody papers in this kind of weather.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“He had an honest face, though Adamat found that honest faces were almost always deceptive.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“Promise me.”
“No.”
Etan’s eyes were glassy with tears. “Coward. If I were dying, you’d promise me. Because you wouldn’t have to answer to me then. But I’m not dying, and you won’t promise it. Bloody coward.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“you seem”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“Creemos que a veces se necesita de un poco de magia para sobrevivir a la realidad.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“Casi maté a un dios. Masacré a decenas de Privilegiados. Tal vez hayan sido más de cien. Perdí la cuenta. En la ausencia del mariscal de campo Tamas... Por cierto, ¿por qué me dijeron que está muerto? He oído de boca de un dios que no lo está. Ah, sí. El dios que tenemos en nuestro propio campamento. El dios que el alto mando hace como que no existe.”
― Brian McClellan, La campaña escarlata (versión latinoamericana): Los perros que nos persiguen pronto sabrán que somos leones

“They spoke at the exact same moment: “Adamat, I need your help.” “Ricard, I need your help.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“No,” Beon said. “The story is not over yet. But the ending will be very sad regardless.”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign

“Let them come upon us with all their fury, because these hounds at our heels will soon know we are lions!”
― Brian McClellan, The Crimson Campaign