“Remember-doubts may check pride, but too much doubt will keep you from doing what must be done.”
“Very well," said Bregnest as a piece of toast hit him on the nose.”
“Alex smiled at Andy's words and then joined in the sudden biscuit battle that broke out. Thrang yelled madly at them for wasting food, but that only made him a target for everyone else.”
“Words can give us knowledge and understanding. They can tell us of things as they once were, as they should be, or even as they might be.”
“Remember—doubts may check pride, but too much doubt will keep you from doing what must be done.”
“And when has waiting ever been troublesome to a dwarf?”
“almost never free.” “We will hear what he has to say before we agree to pay”
“viva España y demás, y angelitos al cielo o a donde tocara ir.”
“I realized I needed to look at evil in an entirely new light. Most bad guys weren’t running around with eyes bugged out. Most bad guys didn’t come across freaky and frightening…Most bad guys were normal, everyday guys moving through life like anyone else… They were hard to spot and that’s what made them so good at being bad… They could get away with it, and they knew it.”
“Let Valten go save his own damsel in distress. I'm sure there are other maidens he can fall in love with.”
“There was no time to look back. Only to move forward, toward the dots on the horizon, and steer for them.”
“There is much argument here about what is respectable and what is not, and what a good gel should or should not do regarding hemlines. I have to report that the general opinion of a soldier looking forward to leave after many months at the Front is that a hemline should go up as far as possible, and that the more unrespectable the girl the better. The proviso being, of course, that one's own wife/sweetheart should not occupy this category.”
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