Drew Hayes Quotes

#1. The training area was set up where the tournament would actually be held, since putting together two structures to serve the same purpose would be at the level of idiotic redundancy reserved for the highest halls of government.

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#2. We'll loot the bodies and be on our way." "The words that start every great adventure," Gabrielle quipped sarcastically. She might have been surprised to discover how accurate that statement truly was.

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#3. This book is dedicated to the uncool, uncoordinated, unexceptional, uncharming, uninteresting, and especially the unashamed. To everyone from the Awkwards to the Zeroes, living as the proud oddballs they are. This book is dedicated to my people.

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#4. one dream had him chased by a giant pumpkin wielding knives, while a later dream had him chased by a giant knife wielding pumpkins. The first had been scarier, yet curiously it was the second that jerked him from his slumber.

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#5. Instinct was well and good in the right situations, but I refused to let it dictate how I treated or reacted to the people around me. What they were was not the same as who they were, and I knew that better than anyone.

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#6. I missed the days when I would silently judge seemingly crazy people in a park, instead of being one of them.

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#7. Along the way, he followed his own advice and snagged a pair of mismatched daggers from the corpses of fallen archers. They weren't as well-made as the ones he'd taken from the dead rogue, but they had pointy ends he could stab into people and that was really all that mattered in a dagger.

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#8. Friday has always been the blessed child of Time. It's admired, looked forward to, and savored with each occurrence.

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#9. Grumph let out a harrumph, which indicated either that he was unharmed and waiting patiently for a new opportunity to arise, or that a sparrow had shit in his porridge.

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#10. but I'd advise that we all brace for the worst rather than allow ourselves to succumb to optimism's siren song." "Why

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#11. Newsflash: every relationship a person has ends in failure, save for one. Maybe two if you count getting remarried after they kick off, but the point is, we all go in with a ninety-whatever percent failure rate.

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#12. Happiness is a temporary chemical imbalance of the true state of mind.

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#13. And these invitations, these are already sent out?" Rich asked from the front row. "Indeed. Ever since the year a student attempted to hijack the mail truck, we've made it policy to only remind the students of Parents' Weekend after all the invitations are delivered,

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#14. Humans can only toil endlessly for so long. Every now and then we need to taste the sweeter things in life, to remember why we do the work in the first place.

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#15. Bandit or demon, human or beast, none of it made any difference. The bandits had made this a situation of predators and prey. Only living mattered. Everything else was nothing more than an afterthought.

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#16. Oh sure, everyone else charges monsters and it's brave, I do it once and I'm a madman.

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#17. It's curious that children can either be expert liars or utterly incapable of hiding their emotions, and the classification changes from minute to minute.

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#18. In Seattle there is a constant hope for a period called "two days in a row when it doesn't fucking rain.

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#19. I'm sweating like a whore in church out there. Thank the heavens I'm sexy enough to pull it off.

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#20. I am still a god, after all. There's a certain way these things are done.

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#21. Grumble is the god of henchmen and minions. Once a former lackey himself, after his deification he chose to look over his own people rather than putting on airs.

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#22. For once, the only one she had to please with her decision was herself, and the truth was, Gabrielle had been far happier as a pretend goblin, than a pretend proper lady.

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#23. I got into magic because I got into alchemy. Which I got into because I was into chemistry, which I was learning about because I wanted to get better with botany, which I had taken up studying in an effort to grow some killer weed

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#24. Glitter is a form of anti-depressant, because it is impossible to be sad when you twinkle.

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#25. You know, you're a pretty terrible person." "You're not the first to accuse me of such." "I didn't imagine I would be. Still, in spite of that, or maybe because of it, you're also a really good friend.

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#26. Not every situation has a perfect solution; often, you just have to take your pick from the array of poor choices spread out before you.

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#27. Vampire strength might not let me lift cars, but I will tear up some shrubbery all day long.

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#28. Are you telling me that vampires and werewolves are the reason America won the Revolutionary War?," I asked, dumbfounded.

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#29. You're a good man who happens to be a vampire. We aren't human, but that doesn't make us monsters.

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#30. it was that single factor that seemed to most determine how content they were with life: the willingness to act. Taking chances, even when they rarely paid off, still generated more joy

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#31. Sometimes, attaining the impossible was simply a matter of continuously putting one foot in front of the other, no matter what.

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#32. This is less of a 'the king needs a reason' thing and more of a 'the king loves burning shit and killing people' thing," Eric corrected.

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#33. Still, I find lying to be more dangerous than expertly telling the truth, so I avoid it whenever possible.

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#34. The truth had its place, and it was called a deathbed.

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#35. Krystal snorted out a laugh. "Hit on me? Freddy, Bubba is gay. Like really gay. Gayer than a unicorn butt-fucking a rainbow. You're the one he has a little crush on.

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#36. Death was a one-shot deal - it happened, and then you were free. Sally was an old-school southern woman, and Hank knew first-hand that they weren't nearly as kind as death when they got cross.

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