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The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.
“It might have been my imagination, but I thought the pair of them rocked back a little, swaying like reeds before an oncoming storm. October wind blew about us, freezing-cold air that took its chill from the icy depths of Lake Michigan. “What do you want?” I asked them. I borrowed frost from the wind and put it in my voice.”
― Dead Beat
― Dead Beat
“As old as my tongue,’ said Hunter, primly, ‘and a little older than my teeth.”
― Neverwhere
― Neverwhere
“Tashu’s lip quivers. Palpatine was his everything. To serve someone else feels treasonous beyond the pale. The void awaits those who betray Palpatine—that much has always been clear. The void awaits traitors. “I only serve Palpatine.” “Emperor Rax serves Palpatine, too. Now go.” Tashu nods. “Yes. Yes. It makes sense. It’s part of a plan, isn’t it? A plan I couldn’t see? Sidious always had a plan…”
― Life Debt
― Life Debt
“Sir, I don’t want this to get ugly.” “Have you seen your face, guardsman? Too late to wish for pretty.”
― Empire's End
― Empire's End
“I guess you don’t get to be commander of the Wardens by collecting bottle caps, either.”
― Dead Beat
― Dead Beat
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