Em rolled her eyes. “Look, you can be an asshole all you like, but it’s not going to change anything,” she snapped. “You could stab me, and I’d still care. I’d stab you back! Three times over. But I’d still care.”
“A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success.”
― Best Served Cold
― Best Served Cold
“One last chance. That’s all I’m asking.” He had lost count of the number of last chances he had wasted. “Just one more. God!” He had never believed in God for an instant. “Fates!” He had never believed in Fates either. “Anyone!” He had never believed in anything much beyond the next drink. “Just one… more… chance.”
“Alright. One more.”
Cosca blinked. “God? Is that… you?”
Someone chuckled. A woman’s voice, and a sharp, mocking, most ungodlike sort of a chuckle. “You can kneel if you like, Cosca.”
― Best Served Cold
“Alright. One more.”
Cosca blinked. “God? Is that… you?”
Someone chuckled. A woman’s voice, and a sharp, mocking, most ungodlike sort of a chuckle. “You can kneel if you like, Cosca.”
― Best Served Cold
“Strong leaders might like it when someone brings 'em a better idea. But weak ones never do.”
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― Best Served Cold
“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.”
― Best Served Cold
― Best Served Cold
“Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.”
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