Top 48 Lisa Shearin Quotes
#1. It was futile to whisper because Yasha could hear a tick burp at fifty yards.
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#2. One of the true tests to tell if a man's been raised right and is a gentleman is whether he stands when a lady enters the room - or
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#3. Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.
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#4. I couldn't wait to see Phaelan. I'd know instantly if she'd dropped anchor on his ego. *
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#5. Tam knew what I was saying. He stared at me, his expression unreadable. "I need you to support the ceiling above the tear I'm going to make."
"Yeah, yeah. I got it. You pull; I push. Let's go!"
"I need control and delicacy, Raine."
I snorted. "Too bad you're stuck with me.
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#6. I just had his hand in a vise," I protested indignantly. "It wasn't like I had a dagger in his ribs. 'Hand in a vise' is simple assault or, in my case, self-defense. 'Dagger in the ribs' is attempted murder. My family did teach me the difference.
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#7. It's been my experience that mankind - and I use that to encompass all the races - is seldom satisfied with what they have. Most people's striving is harmless, beneficial even. But there are those who strive for subjugation, having control over others' lives, lives held in the palm of their hand.
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#8. With my people, what you see is what you get. We prefer blunt talk to diplomacy. My family was much the same way. Phaelan's idea of diplomacy involved firing cannon shot across your bow rather than through your waterline.
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#10. Mychael stopped me with a hand on my arm. "Raine, when we get inside, let me answer all of the questions."
"What, you don't trust my diplomatic skills?"
"You don't have any.
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#11. I'd heard that if you saw a Reaper, you saw what you expected to see, what you thought the agents of Death would look like. Personally, I wanted to see little, fuzzy pink bunnies, but apparently my subconscious visualized tall, scary, and skeletal. My subconscious and I needed to have a long talk.
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#12. Tam considers me a challenge. I consider Tam a work in progress. I also think there's a gentleman lurking under that calculating exterior. Tam thinks 'gentleman' is a dirty word. I talk dirty to Tam every chance I get.
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#13. Ian stepped out to where he knew I could clearly see and identify his tall, dark, and dangerous self.
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#14. Report any sightings as they happen." "Will a girly scream work?" Rolf asked. "It's always worked for you in the past," a huge, blond-bearded commando shouted good-naturedly. "Why change now?
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#15. As far as I knew, no kingdom had ever gone to war with another over fermented grape juice. Though
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#16. Bodyguard work came easily to hobgoblins. When you're huge, furry, fanged, and yellow-eyed, you don't need much else as a deterrent.
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#17. Sometimes I hated it when I was right, but I always hated it when someone else was. Especially when their being right made me wrong. I'm irrational that way. It's something I'm working on.
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#18. I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night.
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#19. It'd been said that he could rob a man blind and have that same man thank him for his good work.
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#20. You know a lot about spies, espionage, and strategic advantages for a billionaire playboy, real estate mogul, and owner of an exclusive sex club.
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#21. It had been branded with a single hoofprint. Though considering the presence of the sulfur smell, I figured we weren't dealing with a homicidal cow.
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#22. The second time, I had a freakin' vampire at my back." I froze. Oh shit. "No offense, Mr. Moreau," I quickly added.
"None taken, Agent Fraser. During the course of my lengthy life, I have been called many things, but 'freakin' has never been one of them. I'll consider it a novelty.
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#23. PML?" I asked. "Postmortem link." All corporations had their acronyms, but SPI was a special snowflake.
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#24. Grandma said that a skillet's good for three things: frying chicken, baking corn bread, and going upside an obstinate man's head.
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#25. You wearing a thigh sheath?"
"Now what would be the sense of wearing just one? I have two thighs.
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#26. I have a reputation to maintain."
"Best-dressed pirate?
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#27. You'll never find a worse critic than the one inside your own skin, or a more difficult one to silence," I told Pieras, by means of explanation. "The best you can hope for is to teach it some manners.
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#28. I was used to shooting beer cans off the back of an old washing machine, or at things that ran away from me that I intended to eat - not things that ran toward me with the intent of eating me.
I'd found that to be a significant difference.
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#29. But pink's a nice color."
"Not for goblins. Pink is the color of pure evil."
I had a flashback to shopping for one of my nieces in the all-pink Barbie aisle at Toys "R" Us. I had to admit, it had creeped me out. I nodded. "I can see that.
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#30. Was being attacked by a flock of harpies that made the playground scene in The Birds look like a Disney movie.
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#31. Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum.
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#32. My family's big on denial. And if we denied something long enough, we thought it'd go away. I know that's not how it works, but we're in denial about that, too.
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#33. So the owner of a monster head wants to meet on a path named Nut," I said. "That's appropriate.
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#34. WE were on our way to Brooklyn to pick up an arm and see a man about a head.
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#35. Mychael said the rock's not affecting you, and from what I'm seeing I'm inclined to agree."
"I beg to differ."
"Feeling evil?" Justinius asked.
"No."
"Having an urge to overthrow governments, kill thousands?"
"No and no."
"Take over the world?"
"Too much work.
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#36. I'm Raine Benares, seeker and ... " I looked up at Vegard.
"What else are people calling me now?"
The big Guardian chuckled and shook his head. "A lot of things, ma'am. Some you've heard, most you haven't, but I'm sure you could guess.
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#37. To find the Scythe of Nen, I first had to find possibly the most elusive quarry I'd ever had to locate in my entire seeking career: a virgin on an island full of college students.
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#38. Mychael Eiliesor. Guardian paladin, sacred protector, master spellsinger, fashion consultant.
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#39. I decide that we could always indulge ourselves later. First, I had a soul-eating stone of power to poke with a stick.
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#40. Let me tell you, nothing puts you off your bar-food nachos quicker than a lecture on the color and consistency of slug secretions.
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#41. Most girls get flowers or candy. I get a declaration of martial law.
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#42. [ ... ]Let me ask around. In the meantime, you need to keep that trinket out of sight, and you need to be careful."
"I'm always careful."
Garadin gave me the look. You know the one.
"Whenever I can," I added.
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#43. As I swallowed the last bite of my bagel, my fear gave way to anger. "And just what the hell did he mean by 'my erratic behavior'?"
Ian just looked at me. Yasha and Calvin stared straight ahead and didn't say a word.
I glared at all of them.
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#44. There was a momentary lull in the shooting and spellslinging, and the kid started scrambling to his feet. I grabbed his arm and pulled him back down. In my family that's not silence; it's reloading.
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#45. How did it ever come to this?" I asked him. "The same way it always has and - to our great misfortune - probably always will. With fierce hate harbored by a few and complacency displayed by the rest. All it takes for evil to take hold and flourish is for men and women of conscience to do nothing.
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#46. When it came to maintaining a reputation, facts were fleeting but you could ride a rumor for years.
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#47. The NYPD knew Sar Gedeon as a human drug lord. If they'd come in here now, they would have found him dead, sporting Spock ears, a cauterized hole in his torso, no heart, and a hoofprint branded into his chest. I'd like to be a fly on the wall for that investigation.
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#48. Dragons didn't fool around when it came to protecting things that they acquired - be it gold, gems, or a monster's body parts.
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