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1 " When you're on the worst kind of job, audacity's the only thing that'll get you through it: being willing to do something so stupid, there's no way anyone could see it coming. "
― Paul Krueger , Steel Crow Saga
2 " We all have such finite time, even when the spirits are kind. "
3 " To share a table with someone is to share everything. "
4 " You can do anything if you love someone enough. "
5 " Escape now, feelings later. "
6 " My firing instructor always said someone with good aim can kill. Someone with great aim doesn't have to. "
7 " But good shooting made a warrior; discipline, a soldier. "
8 " When a person dies from a gunshot, you don't blame the bullet. You blame the shooter. "
9 " But healing is not a process enacted by sorcery alone. The patient must fight at least as hard as the physician, if not much harder. "
10 " I've found that the ones you lose have a way of coming back to you. "
11 " Even in matters of faith, you can always depend on the constants of supply and demand. "
12 " It's so rare to meet a person who actually lives up to their reputation. "
13 " Guns are great for killing stuff that follows the laws of biology. Do skinless demons that nosh on your life force sound like something you can classify with binomial nomenclature? "
― Paul Krueger , Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge
14 " ..... The easiest fight to lose is a fair one. You might think you're a hot-shit bartender, little Whelan, but I know what this girl can do. She's saved your ass before. I guarantee she won't hesitate to kick a dent in it this time, either. And she'll have help. "
15 " The grown-up who says they know what they’re doing is a grown-up who’s lying. She smiled, and that was when she knew she wasn’t a grown-up. Not yet..... Because she knew what to do. "
16 " The best way to keep a secret is to make sure no one knows you're keeping one. "
17 " Whiskey (from uisce beatha, “water of life”) was first attested in the 1400s in the monasteries of Ireland, where one scribe called it “drinkable evidence of a loving and beatific God. "
18 " Our beautiful language has gifted us with sch a multitude of words,” Xiulan said. “What better way to glorify them than with their use? "
19 " The wise king is the one who knows he isn't. "
20 " But forgiveness was a journey, not a choice. "
