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After a ship arrives requesting the immediate presence of a new ambassador, Mahit Dzmare is sent from Lsel to the capital of Teixcalaan, the interstellar empire on their doorstep – to discover the old ambassador Yksandr is dead under suspicious circu
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“Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”
― Quills
― Quills
“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Graceling
― Graceling
“Are you badly hurt?"
"Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.”
― The King of Attolia
"Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.”
― The King of Attolia
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― Julius Caesar
― Julius Caesar
“Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’
Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.”
― The Graveyard Book
Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.”
― The Graveyard Book
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