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“Duco was gripping the top of the barricade tightly, staring at the departing leader. 'That was a curse.'
'From a man who eats people?' the Batavian with the broken nose said. 'Piss on him, what does he know.”
― The Encircling Sea
'From a man who eats people?' the Batavian with the broken nose said. 'Piss on him, what does he know.”
― The Encircling Sea
“She disappeared like Kazu did, like any number of women did over the years, unremarked, and their demise as unremarkable as surely they were not.”
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
“I’ve discovered that there are two ways of losing your belief: some people lose God when they find themselves; some people lose God when they lose themselves.”
― The Discomfort of Evening
― The Discomfort of Evening
“You shouldn’t have told them I was a girl. Then they might have believed that I was dangerous.”
― The Winter of the Witch
― The Winter of the Witch
“Submission but only to the truth.”
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
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