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“Dave,” Quinn said quietly. “I thought you said Pie wasn’t poisonous.” “He’s not!” Dave’s green brow creased in thought. “He’s not poisonous, he’s venomenomous.” “Venomous,” Quinn murmured. “S’wat I said!” Dave said with a proud grin. “There’s a diff’rence!”

“There will be no killing,” he said, and then looked around at the dead bandits lying on the bloody field. “Well, no more killing. Well, no more killing yet.” He sighed. “There will be no killing of anyone I like, clear?”

“For a moment there I thought I was important.” Quinn twisted in the saddle, his mouth quirking up. “You are.”

Aww

“Angel kisses,” he said, quietly delighted. “What?” “Angel kisses. That’s what they call freckles.”

LOVE

"This was one part of the kingdom he’d never been kicked out of—that was to say, had never been to in the first place, because the two normally went hand in hand."

"For all his snootiness, Calarian went weak at the knees for a bad boy—literally and figuratively. Not that Loth could begrudge him that."

who could

“Most elves are collectivist anarchists, but Benji’s just an antisocial arsehole.”

“No, I still hate you. But you know the saying. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” “That’s a stupid saying. It should be, keep your friends close and your enemies in an unmarked grave. Or, keep your friends close and your enemies far enough away that they’re not a problem. Or even, keep your friends close and your enemies too busy fighting your other enemies to worry about you.”

"Maybe, Loth pondered, just this once, he could try not being an absolute arse. He’d heard people managed it all the time."

He's trying!

"It was only fun teasing someone if you lulled them into a false sense of security first..."