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1 " The expression on his face went past ‘irritated.’ I do believe dragons readying themselves to raid a town sported similar facial twitches. "
― Honor Raconteur , Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!) (Case Files of Henri Davenforth, #2)
2 " Energy to move, I summon thee. Hmm. That clearly failed. "
3 " No, of course I haven’t been robbed,” I sighed to myself, setting my bag down off to the side. “My mother is a picklock. I’d failed to remember that for a moment. "
4 " I had unfortunately reached that state in which I’d utterly stopped paying attention, so I tried to focus. Then found myself focusing so hard on focusing that I still wasn’t paying attention "
5 " Remember, Henri, you can’t go about belting people in the mouth for stupidity. For one thing, you’d be hitting people from dawn to dusk without any end in sight. For another, you need your hands for other things. "
6 " Have you ever noticed,” I inquired of my companion acidly, “that greed directly leads to stupidity? "
7 " By itself, the influenza wasn’t deadly, or so I was told. "
8 " Fortunately, as I made the porch, the door opened "
9 " This corner typically saw three accidents a week, but since its installation, we hadn’t nary a one. "
10 " Jamie’s system was so unstable that the changes pregnancy required would undo her utterly. It would kill both her and the child, likely in the first trimester. Jamie Edwards would be a wonderful mother. And she’d never get the chance. "