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the precise origins of the Sacklers' wealth had, for a long time, been more mysterious.

Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up.

With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.

Why? Because pride is a strange thing, and because generosity deserves generosity in return. But mostly because it felt like the right thing to do, and that is reason enough.

Damn chicken. Come eat your dinner. I'm cold.

Aethe, near my heart. Without vanity, the ribbon. Without duty, the wind. Without blood, the victory.

She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulously. "I've been rather busy," I said. "With the running like hell and hiding all night.

Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.

Ben's training has given me a memory so clean and sharp I have to be careful not to cut myself sometimes.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

Bast looked down at the two men. After a moment he began to laugh too. It was a terrible sound, jagged and joyless. It was no human laugh.

Three circles. Perfect for asking. It was better to be gentle and polite. It was the worst sort of selfishness to force yourself upon the world.

Cuarenta talentos -dijo Devi con rabia -Tarifas del gremio. Y me acuesto contigo.

A bristling fox is better than a deranged, half-shod idiot.

the best cloaks have innumerable little pockets that I have an irrational and overpowering attraction toward. As

That is also an idiom." Wilem grumbled. "Your language is thick with nonsense. I wonder how any of you understand each other. How is everything going? Going where?" He shook his head.

Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous.

I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue.

She's sweet as cream and broad of beam." - Bast

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning." He paused and turned to looked at me, his brow furrowed. "I can't remember the rest of that. Can you?" "Never heard it before," I said. "But Teccam claims that out of all the spirits, only wine is suited to reminiscence. He said a good wine allows clarity and focus, while still allowing a bit of comforting coloration of the memory.

Son of a bitch," I said, too stunned for proper profanity. "I've always figured him for porcine parentage myself," Wilem said dryly.

was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out of their grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing. I

We were none of us particularly drunk. But then again, none of us were particularly sober, either. Our exact positioning between those two points is a matter of pointless conjecture, and I will waste no time on it.