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“Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence."

"Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.”
― Kate Elliott, Jaran

“But there’s something about sitting at someone else’s desk that makes you feel like looking in the drawers. I resisted the impulse briefly. Then I decided what the hell. I was a private investigator. Poking my nose in where it didn’t belong came with the territory.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, The Man Who Tried to Get Away

“We can live in fear, or not.”
― Nathan Lowell, Owner's Share

“When you have a full and eager heart in you, you must not go to a man whose heart is empty and weak.”
― Kate Elliott, Jaran