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61 " Or not lost, he considered, since they lingered on in the hearts of those who loved them, who love them still, their memory nurtured like a sprig of green in an otherwise desolate soul. Which was, he supposed, a kind of immortality, after all. "
― Nicholas Eames , Kings of the Wyld (The Band, #1)
62 " Ah, yes, I do have erectile dysfunction by the throat!” He gave a derisive snort and curled his fingers around the imaginary neck of … well, Clay let that image slide right on out of mind. "
63 " In stories there were marches without weeping foot sores, swordfights without septic wounds that killed heroes in their sleep. In stories, when a giant was slain, it toppled thunderously to the ground. In reality, a giant died much the same way anything else did: screaming and shitting itself. "
64 " The monstrous wolf was the size of a Cascar plow horse, and Clay had just begun composing his death scream – he was thinking something high-pitched, sort of, er, 'falling from a great height' meets, 'I just shat my pants' with a touch of, 'petulant little girl doesn't get her way' thrown in to spice things up – when he heard a deep growling behind him. "
65 " You run away as fast as you can, and I give you a five-second head start before I tell these boys —” he motioned at the two looming sentinels “—to make you the meat in a golem sandwich. "
66 " Would you look at us, Clay thought scathingly. We, who might once have faced down a dragon and only stopped to ask how it preferred to get its ass kicked, baulking at glow-in-the-dark spiders! "
67 " I just wanted her to be able to protect herself. You know, stick ’em with the pointy end and all that. But she wanted more. She wanted to be…” he paused, searching for the word, “… great. "
68 " Alchemy is a costly hobby, I fear. I barely make ends meet selling my phylactery. Frigid Hells, if it wasn't for the limp dicks of Conthas I'd be flat broke! "
69 " He had heard it said by an exceptionally clever bard that if you tried to number the ways you could die in the Heartwyld you’d be dead before you finished counting. "
70 " Clay considered offering up the fact that it wasn’t just Saga coming to her rescue, but a wine-swilling ghoul, an amnesiac daeva, and a half-blind ettin were along for the ride as well. Then again, if something sounded ridiculous in your head, then voicing it aloud rarely did it any favours. "
71 " Look here at a warrior born, a scion of power and poverty whose purpose is manifold: to shatter shackles, to murder monarchs, and to demonstrate that even the forces of good must sometimes enlist the service of big, bad motherfuckers. His is an ancient soul destined to die young. "
72 " This day, this moment, is when you step out from the shadow of the past. Today you make your name. Today your legend is born. Come tomorrow, every tale the bards tell will belong to you, because today we save the world! "
73 " They both looked to Clay, who was busy weighing the threat of the darkness ahead against the darkness behind. At last he sighed. “Into the storm, then. "
74 " I spat in the face of death, and death could do nothing but rage in impotence as I worked up another mouthful of phlegm. "
75 " A tiger, however fearsome, could be hunted into a corner. It fought alone, so it died alone. But to hunt a wolf was to constantly look over your shoulder, wondering if others were behind you in the dark. "
76 " But even a coward found his courage in a corner, and there were things even a craven heart could not allow. "
77 " There were, naturally, several casualties during the course of the fair, but what was any good party without a few deaths? "
78 " A mother's cry, a father's crimeWe cannot leave the past behindOnly in the end we findThe missing piece, the borrowed timeWe bear the weight of stolen thronesWith broken hearts and broken bonesThe saddest song I've ever knownIs the howling of the wolf "
79 " Judge them for what they wished to be, " he begged the Father of Gods, "not what the world made of them. "
80 " if he was going to be robbed he might as well score some bacon in the deal. "