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“Your family demanded we surrender you to them. Again." The batblin said. "Lavy told them to pound sand." "Pound sand?" Steros asked blandly. "One of Lord Ed's expressions. It's another way to tell someone to fuck off." Steros nodded. "Lord Edward has many such sayings." "A good chunk of our, ah… foreign policy is to tell people to fuck off in various ways.”
― Hugo Huesca, Dungeon Lord: Nightmare Kingdom

“And raising an AI follows the same general arc. Your human tendency to think of it as just another piece of technology could indicate a dangerous bias in how the matter will be treated.”
― Dennis E. Taylor, Not Till We Are Lost

“It all comes back to me! How did I ever forget it! How did I dare to forget it? I told myself I would remember it forever, but time goes on and the world fills up with things to remember, things to do, calls on your time, calls on your memory. And you forget the things that were important, the real things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Tiffany Aching Complete 5-Book Collection: The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, The Shepherd's Crown – An Epic Young ... from Terry Pratchett's Beloved Discworld

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“Sometimes, you could shape or be shaped just by loving.”
― Pirateaba, The Wind Runner

“I will see to it that the mound is never touched again, she thought. There is no way that Roland can refuse me now. And besides, I have a secret weapon: I have the trust and confidence of a young lady who is soon going to be his wife. No man can be safe in those circumstances.”
― Terry Pratchett, Tiffany Aching Complete 5-Book Collection: The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, The Shepherd's Crown – An Epic Young ... from Terry Pratchett's Beloved Discworld

“I would also like to note that with the Horns of Hammerad’s successful completion of this assignment with a solo member of our group, when no team was capable of doing so by themselves, we have established our superiority over other teams in this guild. I understand that equates to dominance in Human culture.”
― Pirateaba, The Titan of Baleros

“So. What have you been doing since the battle against the Goblin Lord? I was dead.”
― Pirateaba, The Witch of Webs

“Teriarch had notes. Mental, magical notes, and physical ones. After all, if you couldn’t remember every little detail of what made the Concealed Spoonblade forged by Maia Whitforgers of the Terminus Dynasty, which had claimed fifty-eight lives until the [Assassin] killed themself while eating soup—what was the point?”
― Pirateaba, Lady of Fire

“The Dragon’s answer is this: good or evil. Effort or not. It never matters. All things end.”
― Pirateaba, Lady of Fire