Benedict Jacka Quotes

#1. I've been waiting for this a long time."-Martin "Let me guess that you're wishing for your IQ to break double figures?"- Alex V.

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#2. Not everything is about you.

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#3. Don't want to spend my afternoon picking you off the pavement.

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#4. My would-be assassin was a very good shot.

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#5. It's so easy to believe that today's going to be the same as yesterday, and most of the time it is the same as yesterday, and so it just goes on, one day after another, blending into a comforting sameness. Until it stops. I

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#6. Has anybody ever told you you're a remarkably cynical person?"
"I like to think of it as learning from experience.

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#7. Maybe you've already guessed by now, and you're sitting there wondering how I could take so long to figure it out. If you are, all I can say is that it's a hell of a lot harder to step back and look at the big picture when you have to keep watching your feet for land mines.

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#8. I've heard of a guy in Chicago who advertises in the phone book under "Wizard",though that's probably a urban legend.

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#9. You're lucky you didn't know him back in his tech phase. There was this time in our second year when we were living in the same house. Kitchen table kept wobbling so Landis shoved this metal saucer under one of the legs. Wasn't until two weeks later we found out it was a land mine.

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#10. Russell Square is one of the odder areas of London.

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#11. Tricking people who want to hurt or manipulate me? Something I'm good at. Getting people to like and trust me? Something I'm bad at.

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#12. As I walked, I started making a list of everyone in the mage world whom I'd opposed, fought with, or otherwise irritated. After I ran out of fingers to count on I decided to limit the number to people I'd pissed off relatively recently.

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#13. The noise makes your heart jump, but hearing a sniper bullet is a good thing. The bullet outruns the sound wave; if it's on target, it kills you before you ever hear the sound of the shot.

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#14. For years I'd been trying to forget ... , locking it up and burying it deep in my memory. The journey ... had shattered that, bringing it all back - but now that I'd faced it, I found to my surprise that the fear had been worse than the reality.

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#15. If you can't have another ally," I said at last, "next best thing is to give your enemy another enemy.

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#16. Congrats, you've just had your first assassination attempt.

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#17. It wasn't a passing shower but a steady drumbeat of water, the kind of rain that settles in, puts its feet up and makes it clear that it's not going to leave.

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#18. I suppose I should look on the bright side. I might be going to an indictment, but at least it wasn't mine. Yet

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#19. Whoever had designed the block of flats had obviously worked to a clear set of priorities. Unfortunately, while cost, size, and low-maintenance had made it to the top of the list, aesthetics, good escape routes, and shelter from gunfire hadn't.

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#20. As a general rule anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice [ ... ]

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