“know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.”
“What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.”
“Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.”
“What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.”
“Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself.
“He fights with us. We’re an army.”
“An army? Talk about delusions of grandeur. What are you?” she asked Glenna.
“Witch.”
“So, we’ve got a witch, a sorcerer, a couple of refugees from Geall and a vampire. Some army.”
“There are always monsters,” the old man replied. “Just as there are always men who will join them, and men who will fight them.”
“I looked up at the giant Jumbotron television screen. There on the screen I saw President Bush, standing, saluting the flag. They then split the image in half. On one side was the president, his hand over his heart. On the other side was me, Lopez Lomong, the lost boy carrying the flag of his new home. I am no longer a lost boy or an orphan. The flag in my hand is my identity; it is who I am now and who I never was before.”
“Perhaps in the cold my heart would freeze and I would care nothing for those I was forced to abandon.”
“The choices of one shape the futures of all’?”
“Romance wasn't fair. Nor was it a game. It was war. And, as on any other battlefield, compassion and mercy had no place there.”
“What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory and more grief than I can tell:”
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