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#1. It was always good to know that things in the field really were the way the officers had said they'd be, if only because this so rarely turned out to be the case.

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#2. Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

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#3. Marcus, whose appreciation of wine began and ended with what color it was, nodded uncertainly.

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#4. He'd sometimes thought that the War College was really a thinly disguised royal subsidy to the local tavern industry.

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#5. While I hate to cast aspersions on the humble army cutters, their knowledge tends toward the practical, and their approach is often... blunt. If the problem cannot be removed from the patient with a bone saw, they are often at a loss.

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#6. Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?

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#7. Three men can keep a secret only once two of them are at the bottom of the river.

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#8. Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to.

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#9. But there was never any arguing with Janus, least of all from the other end of a flik-flik line.

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#10. He expects me turn up for the inspection, glance through all of this, and then scurry back to Ohnlei to get on with my life. Marcus gave a rueful smile. More fool him. He doesn't know I haven't got a life.

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#11. Never underestimate what can be accomplished by a little bacon at the right moment,

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#12. You got rid of him?" "For the moment," Winter said. "Nothing confuses an officer like violently agreeing with him.

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#13. I think the general's job is harder than the painter's; canvas doesn't fight back, after all.

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#14. But you...I felt that you would not be used. Would not allow yourself to be used. You deserve the opportunity to make your own choices, to walk your own path. Indeed, I believe you will do so, regardless of what Ending, Geryon, or anyone else intends. You must do what you believe to be right.

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#15. But since the Obsidian Order - perennial of cheap dramas and bogeymen of children's stories - had

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#16. Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?

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#17. You can't eat goat," Buck said. "It ain't natural. If God had wanted us to eat goat, he wouldn't've made it taste like shit.

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#18. It's not courage so much as stubbornness," Alice said frankly. Her lips curled back from her teeth in a grim smile. "I don't like to lose.

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#19. They both offered Winter crisp salutes, but the expression on their faces made her uncomfortable. It was the look of Women meeting a legend. When did I become a legend?

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#20. When they join up, they know I might have to spend their lives, but they trust that I'll get a good price.

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#21. If this works, it' going to be one of those things that get written down in the history books. He wondered, briefly, what he should say. Oh well. I can always think of something clever later to tell the historians.
"Come on!" He chopped downward, toward the enemy. "Let's get the bastards!

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#22. Your powers of perception are astounding," the cat drawled. "Although I feel obliged to point out, in the interests of ontological exactitude, that I am in fact only half cat. Personally, though, I have always considered it the better half.

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#23. Raesinia wondered if Maurisk, in the barricaded offices of the Hotel Ancerre, repeated it to himself. Janus is coming.

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#24. And now that she knew, she couldn't do nothing. She couldn't. The anger would build inside he, on and on, forever until it poisoned her

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#25. To follow the analogy, as a Reader, you're not part of the story, you just insert yourself into it for a while.

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#26. You missed your place as a knight-errant three hundred years ago. Always defend a lady, always stand by a friend, and never betray your lord.

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#27. Is that what love is supposed to look like? Wanting the best for another person, regardless of what it means for yourself?

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