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“What do you mean—we?”
“Go fill a pig,”
like the time she found out it was impossible to swallow without touching the roof of her mouth with her tongue.
people know what a wheel is?”
“That’s your answer for everything, isn’t it? We’re brothers. You don’t have a limp. My name isn’t Shirley. Fish don’t fly. You’re always the one with the answers, aren’t you?”
“Please forgive Flood, Your Majesty. Our mother never cared for him, and this is what neglect yields.”
“Forgive us.”
They were the granite amid sandstone.
What good is surviving, if I have to give up everything I am to live?
You aren’t. Honestly, you’d be more effective if I used you as an actual shield, but it’s not like I have any better options.”
The string you weave is really yourself, and
the pattern you make is your own life.”
“Losing leaves a bitter taste that lingers long after the sweetness of victory has been forgotten.”
“The Dherg are notoriously untrustworthy. Deceit is their first language and selfishness their creed, so they expect the same from others.
Minna had agreed with Suri about that particular bird trying just a bit too hard to stand out.
She may have drifted off at one point or another. If so, the sleep was light, her consciousness skipping across slumber like a flat stone.
All I can do—all I’m good for—is to put myself between you and harm. But isn’t that what a Shield is? A shield?
You never wanted to see her bring the rain.”
This was the nightmare that made nightmares wake up screaming.
Courageous hearts weren’t banned from the breast of women.
How many tears must we weep? How loud must we cry? How many farewells must we say, for the dead to hear goodbye?
“I’m sweating like a rat in a cat’s mouth.”
the worst that can happen is you’ll die. Might even be a step up.
