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21 " The goddess of fire lit him up like a stump, just as she had promised, and I wondered why people who believed in the next life were so anxious to start living it instead of enjoying the one they had. "
― Kevin Hearne , Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8)
22 " People do that—cling to their past because it’s the only thing they consider safe. Trying something new or just accepting it turns their livers into jelly. But that’s a load of bollocks. Ye take the new and appreciate it if it’s good, like whiskey or poutine or girlfriends who bite, or ye dismiss it as shite if it’s bad, like cell phones and cars, and move on. O "
23 " it already sounds like they are giving me the equivalent of a Multipass. "
24 " suspect most people have someone like Beau Thatcher in their lives—a person standing in between who you used to be and who you want to be, guarding the wall and proclaiming that you shall forever be imprisoned by their expectations and obligations. Crossing to the other side will always be a struggle and fraught with dangers that may leave scars. But, oh, the reward when you leap over that wall or break through it and shed the burdens of the past! I am light and free and my path ahead is smooth and wide through a land of burgeoning promise. "
25 " All the earth wants ye to do is thrive, and ye feel that love whenever ye contact an elemental. "
26 " I am light and free and my path ahead is smooth and wide through a land of burgeoning promise. "
27 " Gods blast it, I was asking ye where you shite in the city, not where I should do it!” I might have said that a bit too loudly, because people on the sidewalk look at me out of the corners of their eyes and swerve away from the man talking to a giant dog about where to drop a pound. "
28 " know them "
29 " His moral compass always points to himself; he is his own true north. "
30 " You should learn Polish and read Szymborska! "
31 " Orlaith asks as we return to the tree. Germany. You know they have sausages in vending machines there? "
32 " In the pattern of the curdling cheese she divined the future, the complex patterns revealing truth to her far more clearly than my wands ever could. "
33 " But in doing so—moving forward, in Greta’s mind—he’s still dealing with the past. It’s always strung out behind us, innit, attached to our arses like a roll of toilet paper we trail out of the bathroom, pointing the way to the giant shite we just took. It doesn’t matter if we flushed it down: Everyone still knows what we did there. "
34 " You can’t put your fist through a man’s wood and expect him to forgive and "
35 " Few things shape our lives so strongly as guilt. "
36 " I wondered why people who believed in the next life were so anxious to start living it instead of enjoying the one they had. "
37 " A lot of business with something called a Realtor happens after that—they have people these days who do nothing but sell houses, and they aren’t even the ones who built them. Makes no fecking sense. "
38 " They bark at night sometimes and you think, what you barking for? Stop that. Sometimes dogs hearing and seeing things we do not, and they scare them away, protect us. "