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1 " There are a thousand ways to die,” he told me quietly. “There are so few really to live. I would gladly risk the former for the latter, and it is my choice, is it not? To risk whatever I must, my heart, my body, my soul, in order to be with you. Is that not what love is? – Louis-Cesare "
― Karen Chance , Shadow's Bane (Dorina Basarab, #4)
2 " I wasn’t usually the screaming type; I’d trained myself out of it years ago, because it doesn’t up your chances of survival if you broadcast to the enemy both the fact that you’re wounded and exactly where you are. "
3 " Then what is it about?” Marlowe staggered back to his feet, and Louis-Cesare hit him again. “I don’t like his face.” “Oh, that’s mature. "
4 " He’d faced death many times. But not like this. Not butchered like an animal, and sold like a piece of flesh in the market. "
5 " It was said with all the panache of a dying hero announcing a mortal blow. "
6 " But I didn’t lose it and run screaming across the yard, although I don’t get any points for that considering that my knees had just locked and I couldn’t seem to move. "
7 " But then I found out that somebody, probably the damned guards, had drunk all the beer, and that was the last straw. So I was hermiting inside my tent with an attitude and the last piece of food in the place. Because there are certain things even a troll won’t eat. "
8 " The upshot was that the house had become a little . . . eccentric . . . over the years, almost like it had a mind of its own. Or a personality, anyway. Specifically, that of a crotchety old woman who didn’t like people messing with her stuff. "
9 " There are a thousand ways to die,” he told me quietly. “There are so few to really live. I would gladly risk the former for the latter, and it is my choice, is it not? To risk whatever I must, my heart, my body, my soul, in order to be with you. Is that not what love is? "
