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21 " a panting little man with a head that put one in mind of a squash, "
― Christopher Buehlman , The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
22 " Sornians were famous for violently resisting royal decrees to marry and reproduce—such decrees being popular after the Threshers’ War. You might think such a movement would be easily suppressed, but many of its adherents were birders and other warriors, and knew how to fight, both singly and in formation. One Sornian poet was arrested in Unther, but her captors never made it to gaol with her, as they were drubbed by a phalanx of her sisters using tentpoles as pikes. The group near us had the words As We Will tattooed in Beltian on arms or napes and were armed with short swords and truncheons. "
23 " I was so scared, I half wanted to piss myself, but the difference between the strong and the weak isn’t that the strong don’t piss themselves. It’s that they hitch their pissy pants up after and go through with it. "
24 " Come here, you little weed,” I said and scooped him up by the nape. He stuck his paws out in front of him like they do, and I spoke right into his face, looked him in his useless, pretty eyes. “Bully Boy,” I said, “time has come to part ways. There’s no place for you on the ship.” He raoed. "
25 " To conquer a kingdom, a thousand is not enough. To free a prisoner, ten is too many, "
26 " Hope you enjoyed your chicken stew, you murdering bitch! "