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“Never build a dungeon you wouldn’t be happy to spend the night in yourself,” said the Patrician, laying out the food on the cloth. “The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people,” said the man. “You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Down there,” he said, “are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Reyna. This is important: you never have to earn me. I’m not ‘payment for services rendered.’” A pause for breath, almost pained. “Please don’t reduce me to that.”
― Rebecca Thorne, Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

“There was something pleasing about productive conversations, rather than burning bridges with fiery emotion. When they first started dating, Kianthe had never considered the little tactics Reyna often employed: separating from impulse, practicing empathy, repeating another’s sentence to prove she’d been listening. But they were brilliant, just like Reyna was, and they made the entire relationship better.”
― Rebecca Thorne, Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

“Why Leafhaven wasn't called Pumpkinhaven I'll never know, but it was a great opportunity and now it's gone.”
― Morgan Stang, The Bookshop and the Barbarian

“After all, every time you read a book, you see the world from the eyes of another person, and that, of course, is the basis for all empathy.”
― Morgan Stang, The Bookshop and the Barbarian

“Huggle was not a hero. You could tell from the way his thighs chafed as he ran.”
― David P. Macpherson, Here Be Dragons

“As he stood and watched the mysterious world of manual labour, three figures appeared at the edge of the site. One fat, one tall and one donkey.”
― David P. Macpherson, Here Be Dragons

“Still, if he kept at it, kept plugging away, it would all pay off in the end. It had to. Otherwise, it just wouldn’t be fair.”
― David P. Macpherson, Here Be Dragons

“Incompetence in guardsmen doesn’t start straight away. It builds up over years, like rust and resentment”
― David P. Macpherson, Here Be Dragons

“Wyngalf knew almost nothing of seafaring and figured that whatever was spooking the crew was beyond his control, so he avoided pursuing the matter as long as possible.”
― Robert Kroese, Distopia

“But expressions of faith needn’t be constrained by practicality or logic.”
― Robert Kroese, Distopia

“The fact that Keith had let me rip out all of the buttons in his shirts the day we arrived home from North Sumbria reminded me why I loved him so much. Not just because his clavicle was incredibly attractive, but that helped.”
― Mystic Neptune, I Ran Away to Evil

“Xie Lian patted Hua Cheng down to check for wounds, feeling up his chest, his arms, and all the way down his legs. But other than coming to the conclusion that Hua Cheng had a truly fine body, he made no notable finds.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 4

“me, the one basking in infinite glory is you; the one fallen from grace is also you. What matters is you, not the state of you. “I…admire San Lang very much. I want to understand your everything, so I’m very envious that someone has already met that version of you so early on. That kind of affinity can only come by chance; it can’t be begged for. And whether that bond should live on is three parts fate and seven parts courage!”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 4

“San Lang…how about we switch it up?” “Switch what?” Hua Cheng asked. “...You on top and me on the bottom,” Xie Lian replied. “Top, bottom; isn’t it all the same?” Hua Cheng asked.”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 4