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Swordheart QUOTES

Swordheart QUOTES

1 " I am the servant of the sword,” he said. “I obey the will of the—great god, woman, put on some clothes! "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

2 " One of the grimmer realizations of Sarkis’s youth had been the discovery that knowing you were being an ass did not actually stop you from continuing to be an ass. "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

3 " What would you say if I tortured you?" asked the bandit leader conversationally.
Halla blinked at him. "Err, 'Ow,' probably. 'Stop, Stop, Stop,' something like that?" *What a bizarre question. What does he expect me to say?* "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

4 " Halla rolled her eyes at him, licking bacon grease off her fingers. Sarkis’s gaze locked on her mouth, and it took her a moment to think why.
Oh. Uh. Licking my fingers. Yes. Men get very interested in that.
Should I try to flirt? Or am I supposed to lick something else? She was out of bacon and probably nobody found licking a tin cup sexy. Licking the wagon was right out.
Dammit, I’m bad at this. "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

5 " I am a lawyer and a priest,” said Zale. “There is probably someone on earth more bound to confidentiality, but I have yet to meet them. "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

6 " she chose to wander about wearing nothing but strategically placed lizards, "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

7 " The miller back home was like that,' she said. 'He had a little bit of power and he lorded it over everyone. Although there's less damage you can do with a mill than with a religious order. "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

8 " The dead are bound beneath the earth and their tongues stopped with clay but the day will come when they are free to sing the praises of the worm!” “Perhaps a very tiny god,” said Zale, tapping the bars. “A very tiny angry god,” said Sarkis. “Tweedle-tweedle-twee…” “You’ll take it back, won’t you?” said the priest hopefully. “I’ve been keeping it in here, but it scares the novices. "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

9 " For my sins,” said Sarkis softly. “There are few sins that should chase a man beyond death. I do not think yours qualify. "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

10 " Occasionally, its eyes would flash green and it would begin roaring in an impossibly deep voice about the end of the world and the screams of the damned. "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

11 " I had a cousin who guarded caravans, but then a horse stepped on him and then his foot fell off... no. no, the two were actually unrelated. But he got out of the business after that. Oh, hello there mister bandit, now why did you go into this line of work...? "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

12 " Without a handy wilderness to vanish into, they would probably need a city. Cities were basically wildernesses with too many witnesses anyway. "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

13 " But I want to go! It’s not an abduction! Really! "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

14 " This comes of always being the practical one, she thought, a bit wearily. Nobody will comfort you, so you learn to do it yourself. "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart

15 " connection to the people before you,” she said, and he heard the heaviness of that knowledge in her voice. “To come unmoored in history. It’s why I became a historian in the first place. We must help each other find our place again. "

― T. Kingfisher , Swordheart