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“I wouldn’t get into that thing,” Austin continued, ears flat, “if I still had all nine lives. Not even if I’d rescued Princess Toadstool and picked up another life. If anything goes wrong, somebody has to be around to say I told you so.”
― Tanya Huff, Summon the Keeper

“And she actually preferred watching hockey with that stupid blue light the American television stations were using to help their viewers locate the puck. Trust the Americans not to realize that knowing the position of the puck was the whole point of the game.”
― Tanya Huff, The Second Summoning

“Men whose mistakes could kill more people, faster; but still, just men.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric's Fox

“It was one of those British phrases, along with ‘May I help you?’, that can be either exceedingly polite or hugely aggressive.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

“Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal—it was business.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Rescue was bad. People who wanted you to be vulnerable and grateful tended to get very angry when you stopped being vulnerable and didn’t act grateful enough.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Grace

“She seemed like the type of woman who’d help you forget about your headache by setting your bed on fire.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren

“People were a hazard to the damn human race.”
― J.D. Robb, Origin in Death

“if a snake fucked a tarantula and their baby died in a tar pit and was later reanimated by a necromancer who graduated at the absolute bottom of his class.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“It was like being rolled over by a steamroller made of flowers, Abigail thought. It didn’t really hurt, it was all very pretty and sweet-smelling. But you were still flattened.”
― Nora Roberts, The Witness

“What he was trying to say was harder to express. It was giving in to feelings other people thought you were supposed to have about things that shouldn’t have happened to you in the first place, but were not like the actual feelings you did have.”
― Martha Wells, The Harbors of the Sun

“And “weak” wasn’t really the right word for what Shade meant. What he was trying to say was harder to express. It was giving in to feelings other people thought you were supposed to have about things that shouldn’t have happened to you in the first place, but were not like the actual feelings you did have.”
― Martha Wells, The Harbors of the Sun