“You’re important with your green eyes looking at me like I mean something. It’s okay that you have better things to do. It’s enough that I get you sometimes. Once in a while. I know I’m lucky for that, to get you just a little.” I”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“You have made a mistake. You mistook the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.”
― Blood of Elves
― Blood of Elves
“Yes, and I suppose she wore a red gown for her meeting with the Saint. I suppose she was as clean as a licked kitten and smelled of rosemary.” When Kit grimaced, Melaugo said, “You have not seen death, my lord. You have only seen the mask we put on it.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Young? He’d hear his own harsh, pained laugh. Oh, no, not this lass. She’s old. She walked under a blood-red moon in the dawn of time, did this one. Her face is the face of all that cannot be fathomed, and she’s looking you in the eye, Whiskeyjack, and you’ll never know what she’s thinking.”
― The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen
― The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen
“You’re going to die spewing your own lungs out of your nostrils, having failed at the finish line because you couldn’t help but prattle about why you killed innocent people, as though your reasons were interesting …”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
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