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1 " I heard a story," Aedion drawled to Rowan, " that you killed an enemy warlord using a table." " Please," Aelin said. " Who the hell told you that?" " Quinn-your uncle's Captain of the Guard. He was an admirer of Prince Rowan's. He knew all the stories." Aelin slid her eyes to Rowan, who smirked, bracing his sparring stick on the floor. " You can't be serious," she said. " What-you squashed him to death like a pressed grape? "
2 " Look here, cousin,” Big Country’s drawled in the background. “This here’s a car. We just got off a plane, and no matter how fast you push this bitch, she ain’t gon’ fly, so believe me when I say, I refuse to die over some foolishness you call love, not today. "
― , On the Edge of Love (Mama's Brood, #1)
3 " He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his mouth. He let her get nearly out of the room before he spoke, “I may not have the right, Silence, me love,” he drawled so soft she nearly didn’t catch the words. “But I would’ve listened to ye. I would’ve believed ye. "
― Elizabeth Hoyt , Scandalous Desires (Maiden Lane, #3)
4 " Mmm, being irresistibly likeable is such a trial,' she drawled in an impeccable aristocratic whine. 'One is constantly in demand, but one must do one's duty, mustn't one, dear chap? Noblesse oblige and all that... "
5 " Demons," drawled the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger. " Religiously defined as hell's denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension - "
6 " Captain Billings," he drawled finally, " if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know. "
