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Time's Arrow (A Time of Darkness #1) QUOTES

1 " Then perhaps you don’t need it. I think the scar gives you character, even if it does mar those pretty tattoos. Would make for great tavern stories if you didn’t cover it.”
Neferre laughed flatly and stuck her hands in her pockets. “There’s nothing great about getting mugged, Ziro.”
Ziro laughed, her deep voice jiggling her second chin. “Oh, aye. But no one said you had to tell the truth now, did they? "

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2 " Return me safely to my home,” the princess said, “and I shall reward you with your weight in eggs.”
Olorun snorted derisively. “You’re joking, right?”
The woman’s eyes flitted in embarrassment.
“Now wait a minute,” said Helianthus. “We’re talkin’ eggs here. What sort of eggs? Ostrich eggs?”
Neferre made an impatient noise. “Hel! She doesn’t have any eggs! Unless they’re hidden in a very . . . delicate place.” Neferre grinned at the princess. “Tell me your eggs are hidden where I think they’re hidden. "

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3 " Kimaria smirked and placed her hands behind her back. “Come now. It doesn’t have to come to that. Violence is so beneath us.”
“No, it isn’t,” said Helianthus at once.
“Well . . . it is beneath me,” the high queen said and touched a hand to her chest. “Unlike you, I am civilized. I wear shoes and I have a last name.” They watched as she eased into a chair. She crossed one leg over the other, folded her arms, and regarded them calmly. “Aren’t you the least bit curious as to how I snatched the famed Nineveh Atvaris from our dark past? You can’t be that boring. "

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4 " Verne frowned. “Calm down. Don’t exert yourself in your condition.”
Salen looked at Verne in amazement. “Don’t exert --! My dear woman, we are all about to die! I don’t think it damn well matters if I shit my pants at this point -- "

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5 " Helianthus snorted. “Olorun is like his mother: he will only change as the face of a rock changes. But . . . I think he missed you. "

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6 " My child will bear those scars forever,” Tilv said angrily.
“And if he isn’t a fool, perhaps your child will learn from them,” Neferre returned calmly. "

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7 " Neferre swallowed hard. “The elder used to tell stories of dark places in dark times,” she said, picking the needle through with black nails, “when the winters were endless and the sun fell cold across the land. When beasts far worse than the crags prowled the shadows. And there were no humans. Only elvkarin and the night. We knew the bitter sting of winter’s breath and it never ended as it ends now. We called it Isaria on Evile. A Time of Darkness. "

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8 " Why does everything want to eat children?!”
Neferre smiled. “Because you taste like candy. Stinky socks would mask your delicious scent from the aziza. We must get you stinky socks. So they do not eat you.”
“That’s not much of a bedtime story! You really haven’t done this before! "

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9 " Aha!” laughed the high queen with almost girlish delight. She slammed the flat of her little hand on the nearby table and the dragon statue leapt. “The idealist speaks again! You actually think the humans can live happily ever after with the elvkarin?” She narrowed her bright eyes, looking at Neferre in pity and amazement. “Don’t you even yet understand? Don’t you know who you are? The dragons were not mindless beasts – they were people, fierce and proud! Good dragons, bad dragons, dragons who were fucking indifferent -- Nineveh exterminated them like so much filth. "

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10 " You are drawn to dangerous things, princess,” Neferre said with a flat laugh. “You are not very smart.”
Neferre was surprised when Athica laughed as well. “No. Perhaps I am not,” the princess said, looking at Neferre fondly. "

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11 " Neferre rested her elbows on her knees and watched as Olorun flipped through the book. “Any answers in there? Like maybe how to take that stick out your ass? "

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