“Always been lean.” “Oh, me too.” And he patted his belly. “The body of a hero lies just below this carefully nurtured layer of fat.” She raised a brow. Clover loved to see things done well, and she’d a hell of a brow-raise, did Wonderful.
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“Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there’s not a man of them I wouldn’t trust my mother to.’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘She’s been dead these twenty years. What harm could they do her now?”
― The First Law Trilogy
― The First Law Trilogy
“Hazidan smacked my head. I knew it was going to happen sooner or later. ‘And stop swearing in my presence. Cursing is the lazy man’s wit.’ ‘That’s sarcasm.’ She smacked me again.”
― The Malevolent Seven
― The Malevolent Seven
“Nothing pisses me off like having my sacrifices undermined.”
― Honor's Knight
― Honor's Knight
“His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains,”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“This humble correspondent has heard her described as both “a soul of celestial grace and boundless generosity” and “a venomous, razor-taloned harpy whose back never met a mattress it didn’t like.”
― The Legion of Flame
― The Legion of Flame
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