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“No,” I said. “It’s just the actual use of the word for hundreds of years is different from what you’re saying it is here, no matter how you try to polish it up.”
“The fat man who’d volunteered the glass looked as if he sold things; he had the unpleasant complexion of someone who’d hit too many bottles but missed too many meals.”
― Maskerade
― Maskerade
“Turtle, Bette, and the others all go inside the coffee place, but I pause out in the parking lot, with its scenic view of the wind-beaten sign for the Little Darlings strip club. Rachael sees me and hangs back too.”
― Victories Greater Than Death
― Victories Greater Than Death
“There’s a certain type of manager who is known by his call of “My door is always open” and it is probably a good idea to beat yourself to death with your own CV rather than work for him. In Ridcully’s case, however, he meant, “My door is always open because then, when I’m bored, I can fire my crossbow right across the hall and into the target just above the Bursar’s desk.”
― The Last Continent
― The Last Continent
“The Highbulp frowned. “How me know you not take all treasure, leave Highbulp only one mad dragon? There be lot of treasure, pretty rocks.”
― Dragons of Autumn Twilight
― Dragons of Autumn Twilight
“The figurehead, for example, was certainly vaguely female, although to the Dean’s disappointment it had the same detail as a half-sucked jellybaby.”
― The Last Continent
― The Last Continent
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