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“Okay, smart guy,” I said. “Explain what happened to you.” He glowered again, only with more purple.
“Circle traps are a standard tactic for dealing with rogue summoners.”
Why worry about smoking in bed when your building is already on fire?”
“You’ve been modestly helpful to him in the past, Binder. But don’t start thinking that you would survive telling him what he should or should not do. The moment you become more annoying than useful, you are a dead man.”
And when you get people who love power together, they’re all holding out a gift in one hand while hiding a dagger behind their back in the other.
Lara and her two sisters walked toward us, and they were good at it.
“Stop learning, start dying,” Ebenezar said, in the tone of a man quoting a bedrock-firm maxim. “You’re never too old to learn.”
I’ve started thinking that you don’t ever plan on a single path to victory. You set things up so that you’ve got more than one way to win.
I’m not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.
Ebenezar smiled wryly. “In denying the existence of one conspiracy, Langtry has necessitated another.” “And got himself a twofer with a side order of irony,” I said.
“Did you go to his funeral?” “No one did,” I said. “Officially, he was corpus non gratus.
