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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.
“No clear chain of succession was evident. Palpatine had no family of which to speak, at least as far as anyone knew.”
― Life Debt
― Life Debt
“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
“Hey. I don’t care what kind of faerie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you’ve got danglies and can lose them, that’s the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick.”
― Proven Guilty
― Proven Guilty
“Regret is a wall made of sorrow mortar and history bricks, a house built in such a way is destined to collapse. I”
― Spinward Fringe Broadcast 4: Frontline
― Spinward Fringe Broadcast 4: Frontline
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