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Start the evening looking for fun, end the morning begging forgiveness.
Dont we all. :P
winners are those who get over their shock quickest and start working out where the profit is.
She’d been called a scammer, a fleecer, a cheat, a thief, a bitch, a thieving bitch, a ferrety fuck, a lying weasel, and those were only the ones she’d taken as compliments.
“A time comes when the stakes are of such enormity that moral objections become themselves immoral.”
Wild that this isthe thoght process many have
to fight devils … one must be prepared … to use devils?”
Alex couldn’t have given a smaller shit about all that if she’d gone at a turd with tweezers,
“On the contrary, I am a great admirer of the tenets of your religion. I merely find it a shame that the Saved are, as a rule, so little like their Saviour.”
“Sometimes,” growled Jakob as he turned his horse to follow, “least worst is the best you can hope for.”
“Shield-maiden, please.” The baron snorted. “Axe-bitch, maybe.” Vigga grinned. “I really like the sound of axe-bitch.”
“Everything ends in tears,” he muttered.
Everyone’s scared all the time.
Lying was a sin, apparently, unless you did it outrageously and persistently
enough, in which case it qualified as scripture.
“How is it?” asked Alex. “Cheesy.” “Is that bad?” “In many things it would be, but in cheese it’s essential.”
life’s painful enough without getting in your own way,
Get what you can from the moments then let ’em go. Don’t hoard your nutshells. Travel light, light as wind, scrape off the mud of grudges and regrets. Stay clean.
Dirty elf bitch,
“Guess sometimes you need clever fingers and patience.” Vigga shook a hand through her hair and tossed it out behind her as she swaggered in. “But sometimes only a beautiful fool will do.”
“I hear some people can get through a day without stabbing anyone.” Vigga shrugged. “Some people, maybe.
Here was death, and it was an utterly horrible death, and there was nothing left to lose.
