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81 " But power – and here’s the lesson you get for free, boy – power without humility is an arrow that destroys everything in its path, piercing one life after another until only at the very end does it return to slay the archer who fired it. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Crownbreaker (Spellslinger, #6)
82 " A woman. It's like a man only smarter and with bigger balls. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Spellslinger (Spellslinger, #1)
83 " I instinctively reached out to steady her. Unfortunately for both of us, at that precise moment she shifted her weight to catch her balance. Our foreheads collided with a painful thud, and worse - much, much worse - it's entirely possible that my lips brushed against hers in the process.'Did he just try to kiss me?' she demanded loudly. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Shadowblack (Spellslinger, #2)
84 " Ah, you fool. Dying isn’t sacrifice. Haven’t you figured that out yet? All those years of trying to get yourself killed in battle? That ain’t sacrifice, boy. That’s self-loathing. It’s gleeful suicide. It’s vanity. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Traitor's Blade (Greatcoats, #1)
85 " That’s what being free means – not the right to do whatever you want, but the right to take a stand and say what you’ll die for. "
86 " Trust your memory to tell you where the target is. Trust your hand to remember how to throw. And most of all, trust your heart to lead you straight. "
87 " Violence weakens the spirit,’ Durral said. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Way of the Argosi (Spellslinger, #0.5)
88 " Not all struggles are overcome – some can only be endured. The teysan tries to make themselves strong, believing that strength will keep them from breaking. A true Argosi embraces defeat, despair and disaster, knowing that to fall is inevitable, and the art we must learn is to rise up again. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Fall of the Argosi (Spellslinger, #0.6)
89 " Apparently sometime last night he up and decided to throw himself from the seventh floor. Well, first he took the trouble to stick a knife in his own back, which seems excessive to me. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Queenslayer (Spellslinger, #5)
90 " The world's got plenty of mages, Kellen. What it needs are men and women." She made the words sound different than the way people usually say them. Important, somehow. "
91 " There is no shame in love, no matter what others may tell you - and no matter what you may tell yourself. "
― Sebastien de Castell , The King's Letters
92 " Maybe that’s why wars keep happening; they kill off so many people it becomes easy to forget what really happened, and all that’s left is to make up stories about it. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Soulbinder (Spellslinger, #4)
93 " Because that’s what he does,’ Brasti interrupted. ‘He asks himself what the dumbest possible thing to do would be in any given situation and then he does it. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Knight's Shadow (Greatcoats, #2)
94 " some terrible instant in which their lives had changed, like when lightning strikes desert sand and turns it to blackened glass. I understood now that no such grand or ghastly event was needed. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Charmcaster (Spellslinger, #3)
95 " Of course he knows what you’re saying,’ Reichis chittered in reply, then added, ‘Idjit.’ The squirrel cat meant to say ‘idiot’, but we’d been travelling the borderlands for a few months, and he’d taken to talking like a gap-toothed sheep herder. "
96 " Carath moron!’ I shouted at the top of my lungs, aiming my fingers at Arc’aeon as if I’d really been casting the spell. The ‘moron’ part wasn’t necessary, but when you’re an outlaw with a price on your head, you take your fun wherever you can. "
97 " The queen let go of his ear and then bent her head down and whispered something to him.Reichis’s ears went flat against his head even as his fur suddenly changed to a pale yellow. He looked like he’d been hit by a thunderbolt. ‘Kellen!’ he chittered frantically.‘What’s wrong?’ His eyes found mine. I’d never seen him look so shocked. ‘This bitch speaks squirrel cat! "
98 " Reichis glanced up at me, fuzzy muzzle contorted into an expression that I assume was meant to convey disgust at my troubled ruminations. ‘Why don’t you use your –’ he tapped a paw against the twisting markings around his left eye – ‘enig … um … eniggy … enigmarismitipitopystupidism?’ ‘I think you mean “enigmatism”.’ One corner of his lip curled up into a snarl. ‘That’s what I said. "
99 " „Jsem ženská, chlapče. Zřejmě jsi ještě žádnou neviděl, jelikož ses narodil v tomhle zapadákově, ale jsme jako chlapi, jen šikovnější a s větší kuráží. "
100 " For a long time I heard her in the hallway. Sometimes she wept, or became angry and pounded on the door. Mostly she just repeated my name, over and over. I stood there through it all, forcing myself to feel a tiny fraction of the suffering I was causing her, as if it made any difference to the world. It was only later, after I finally heard her leave, that the last piece of what had once been my heart broke in half and I started sobbing like a child, because it turns out that even a man with nothing but black in his soul can feel pain. "