Hilari Bell Quotes

#1. To say it was a dark and stormy night would be a gross understatement. It was colder than witch's kiss, wetter than a spring swamp, and blacker than a tax collector's heart. A sane man would have been curled up in front of a fire with a cup of mulled wine and a good boo-, ah, a willing wench.

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#2. Humph. Looking around for the sword, are you? Well, it's a better idea than thrashing around at random.'
'The Prince,' said Master Horace repressively, 'will inform us of his intentions when he wishes to do so. We are here to serve, not to quest
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'Yes, it's the sword,' Edoran told her.

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#3. Fisk would take care of it.

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#4. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough.

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#5. With Weasel and Arisa at his side, anything was possible. Anything.

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#6. Today, salute, mile, serve, deep. And I am never doing that again.-Kavi

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#7. Crazy people must have an advantage when it comes to doing crazy things.

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#8. It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective ... When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe.

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#9. Could he possibly believe a purple tunic over a butler- yellow shirt and scarlet pants became him.

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#10. Man must look after man, for we have no gods to watch over us.

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#11. I hadn't been hanging around a knight errant for three years without learning that impossible things can happen, if you're willing to throw common sense in the air and try.

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#12. Things that other people do, or that happen to people you love, are some of the things you can't fight.

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#13. So truth created the ultimate lie. Was this what the world was like for wizards? This thorny, gray tangle where right and wrong were so mixed there was no telling them apart?

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#14. Sometimes you can't fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast.

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#15. As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit his unprotected leg and he yelped and clutched it. That was a mistake. The second barrage was entirely directed at his legs.

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#16. I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.

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#17. Cogswhallop glanced skeptically at the complex runes. "Are you sure this'll work, gen'ral?"
"Of course I'm sure-"
Ping. The silvery note echoed in the cramped room. Makenna felt her face turn scarlet.

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#18. his reach exceeds his grasp. He tries to do things no one else would even dream of attempting-and he usually brings about three-quarters of it off. The last quarter sometimes trips him up, but the parts he does manage are remarkable. And no one else would have tried.

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#19. Or a pigeon, or a rat, or . . . I always double-check the leash.

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#20. In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

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#21. And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates.

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#22. I never thought honor would feel like betrayal.

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#23. They certainly do nothing for the rest of us.

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#24. How do you know he's a friend? There might be a number of people looking for me."
The creases around her eyes deepened. "I figure he's a friend, 'cause every now and then he calls,'Answer me, you stubborn son-of-a-bitch.

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#25. Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook anything important. Like the fact that they were supposed to retreat.

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#26. Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.

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#27. Man must look after man sicne no god watches out for us.

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