Dreadnought (Nemesis, #1)
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Read between August 21 - August 22, 2020
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People don’t pop from pride, which is the only reason why I don’t.
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Conjugation in French is a special kind of horror, on par with the sort of things you’d need to do to call up the Old Ones when the stars are right.
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“You mean to tell me you haven’t noticed how insufferable they are? The little tin gods who abandon us when they get bored?”
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Calamity shrugs. “Maybe she’s got attention deficit disorder?”
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Second, they’d have to have tumbleweeds rolling between their ears to do something that would piss you off that much.
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“That is the most boring slur I have ever heard.”
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Magic is something else, though. Magic is things like witches spinning thread out of moonlight, and using that to weave a cord for binding lies. It’s
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I open my math book and gird myself to do battle with binomial equations.
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But if you wanna quit the moment it gets hard, then I’ll not cry to see the back of you.”
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Open battle is the most honest relationship you can have with somebody. They want to do something bad. I want to stop them. Whoever is stronger gets what they want.
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He lands in an enormous white cloud of dust and steam, and I frown, disappointed. I like catching people while they fall. It’s fun.