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141 " Wind slapped them against the cliff face, then yanked them outward in a biting swirl of airborne sand. "
― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)
142 " otherwise.” The old man made no reply to that. They walked on in the city’s sepulchral silence. The foundation stones and the low ridges of inner walls mapped the floor plans of the buildings to either side. "
143 " Numbness spread, allowing him to move his arms without the stabbing agony that had had him bathed in sweat over the last few hours. "
144 " Pella started as a massive shape separated itself from behind the hanging. "
145 " Seeing victory only moments away stripped caution from the hunters. "
146 " ¿Qué es lo que convierte a un soldado malazano en un miliciano tan peligroso? Se les permite pensar. "
147 " He let out a slow breath, only now realizing he was lying on an ants' nest and its inhabitants were telling him to leave in no uncertain terms. I lie with the weight of a god on their world, and these ants don't like it. We're so much more alike than most would think. "
148 " History comforts the dull-witted "
149 " Rage and unbearable pain meshed together like twin strands in an ever-tightening rope. "
150 " Dying a dozen times in mock battle is nothing. When it's for real you die but once. "
151 " He could only nod as he tucked the scrap in his belt. He looked at the three figures before him, wishing Bult and List had been present for this, but there would be no staged goodbyes, no comfort of roles to step into. Like everything else, the moment was messy, awkward and incomplete. "
152 " Felisin ducked as something winged past her, leaving in its wake a musty, dead smell. "
153 " Like a wing sweeping them into its embrace, the storm closed around them. "
154 " The Soletaken was sundering the barrier, its hungry roar deafening in its reverberations. "
155 " Blood and chaos is the wine and meat of the gods—most of them, anyway. Especially the ones most eager to meddle in mortal affairs. "
156 " Pain lanced through her thighs. "
157 " I have lived centuries, yet what do I know of my own past? Where are my memories? How can I judge my own life without such knowledge?' 'Some would consider your curse a gift,' Mappo said, a flicker of sadness passing across his features. "
158 " For all that scholars tried, Duiker knew there was no explanation possible for the dark currents of human thought that roiled in the wake of bloodshed. He need only look upon his own reaction, when stumbling down to where Nil and Nether stood, their hands gummed with congealing sweat and blood on the flanks of a mare standing dead. Life forces were powerful, almost beyond comprehension, and the sacrifice of one animal to gift close to five thousand others with appalling strength and force of will was on the face of it worthy and noble. If not for a dumb beast’s incomprehension at its own destruction beneath the loving hands of two heartbroken children. "
159 " There's no point in thinking about tomorrow. Just the next hour, each hour. Stay alive, Felisin, and live well if you can. "
160 " You weren't punished for not doing what you were told. (...) They hurt you because they could, because there was no-one there who was capable of stopping them. "