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1 " You have the distinct appearance of a woman in need of something warm and furry. "
― K.M. Weiland , Dreamlander
2 " Apathy is a tide pool that drowns its victims. "
3 " People only believe in heroes when they win. "
4 " A TELEPHONE YOWLED in Chris’s ear, and he scrabbled at his side for a sword that wasn’t there. "
5 " If you hadn’t wanted out of here so bad, you wouldn’t have let yourself believe the lies. But you’re here now just like us. You’re tied up just like us. And unlike some of us, it’s your fault. So whyn’t you think on that for a bit. "
6 " Mist cloaked the top, like diaphanous scarves upon ebony shoulders, hiding but not obscuring the city that crowned the summit and spilled down the side of the hill. "
7 " Here.” He lifted the jiswar into her arms. “You have the distinct appearance of a woman in need of something warm and furry.” The "
8 " Pitch tugged at Orias’s coat. “Don’t. Don’t do it.” Mactalde set his goblet on a nearby table and rose. The fire lit his face from the bottom up. “You’ve come so far on your quest to save your people. I don’t think you can abandon them now.” And the gut-wrenching truth was ... he couldn’t. "
9 " she could write the world as she would, life would go on just as it had since the "
10 " Time is short, Master Gifted, so you’ll forgive me if I say what needs to be said without prefacing it with polite nothings. "
11 " You might as well say it. You don’t trust many people, do you?” She hesitated the briefest of seconds. “No, I do not. Trust, faith, hope—they get you killed. They get people you love killed. They’re not facts, they’re fantasies. And I have too much at stake to trust a fantasy. "
12 " Here.” He lifted the jiswar into her arms. “You have the distinct appearance of a woman in need of something warm and furry. "
13 " Dream bodies only needed dream air, right? "
14 " His brain tilt-a-whirled. "
15 " I called you out here to inspire the troops, not to get yourself killed alongside them.” Chris managed a shrug. “Sometimes it’s all the same thing, don’t you think? "
16 " What you do and what you don’t do is because you and you alone have made the decisions. "
17 " I’ll tell you something.” Parry dropped his voice to a whisper. “Her ladyship’s in a bit of a foul mood this morning.” “You mean sometimes she isn’t?” “Well, I’m not actually sure about that. I don’t know her, of course. But this morning she puts me in mind of my grandmother whenever she’s out to kill a hog for mussing her flower garden.” “I see. Thanks for the warning.” He downed the cider in a few swallows and combined the two pieces of melted cheese on toast to make a sandwich. “All right. Lead the way to this hog slaughter. "
18 " Kindnesses were dangerous. They shattered defenses and left the receiver naked and vulnerable. "
19 " Seventeen "
