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“Until you’ve got respect, don’t show a glimmer of anger. The best thing you can do for yourself is be all business, all the time. Any childishness you display will be an excuse to say, ‘I knew he was just a brat.’”
“As the commanding officer, you’re the example that all your soldiers will be unconsciously held to. Work harder, they’ll work harder; bathe, and they’ll bathe.”
“I imagine the only time I’m allowed to cry is a single regulation-sized tear of pride as I overlook a beautiful sunrise vista of my troops overrunning the enemy position?”
every commander of men develops a mythos. They become larger than life. That can work for you or against you.”
‘If you wish to feign chaos, you must be highly organized. If you wish to feign weakness, you must be very strong.’
“Anything you want written on your tombstone?” Brendan asked, guiding his guar closer as the sorceress turned her attention toward the wasps. “Yeah, a list of your relatives who’ve sucked my cock,” Grant said, shivering violently. “Number seven will surprise you.”
‘It’s not close combat unless your nipples are touching.’ One of Karen’s anecdotes came to mind
Age and evil go hand in hand. Either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. And I am very old.
“Vaginas are clearly the superior genitalia,” Ella said from in front of them, leading the way with her heavily armored body in case of an ambush. “They’re self-contained, self-cleaning, get multiple orgasms, can fit entire babies through them, and are built to take a pounding. Men can become infertile from a little love tap to the groin.”
Landbound creatures tended to think in two dimensions.
I can’t charge you for any of this. Because of you, six months from now, I’m gonna be doing nothing but eating crab at parties and saying ‘tut, tut’ all the time. At least, that’s what I think nobles do.
Just putting things into perspective. Moving up in the world crushes the people beneath you. There’s no way around it.
If you’re not living, you’re dying.
“Why is it called The Bowser?” Calvin asked. It’s named after a fictional character that kidnapped princesses, like, a lot. To a ridiculous degree. He was also a bit of a brute.
“I don’t…feel very much, Baroke,” Calvin said. “The howling emotions inside you are a gentle whisper in me.” Calvin clapped Baroke on the shoulder. “But that doesn’t mean I don't have them; I just have to listen more carefully.”
“You can’t learn to tolerate stress without a stressor, can you?”
Raw sewage was less a smell and more a physical sensation of being punched in the nasal passages by raw stench.
I wonder if there’s a Mutation for hypnotic boobs, Calvin wondered
“I wonder what the special reward is.” She bit her lip. “Maybe he’ll pierce my nipples, hook them to a wagon, and drag me naked through the city.”
The problem with locating a master of sneakiness to tutor him was kind of self-evident: They were very hard to find.
I will suspend you by your feet from the ceiling of an ice cave to be eaten by angry gardors!
I guess Shadowboxing is on the restricted list for a reason, Elliot said. Then why do I have it? Somebody miiiight have unlocked Administrative Access on your System account through a backdoor.
“But if you were a wizard king, I could suck the freckles off your manhood.”
half of all chemistry was boiling things and stirring stuff.
Filtering, another 25% of chemistry.
Science is boring, but effective.
most people don’t understand that their dream job is still a job.
It would have cut me in half easier than an old man passes gas!
when you become a wizard king, you need to let other people punish people for you. Your violence needs to be impersonal, and calculated. At least in public.”
