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"Dying for my country meant nothing to me, but who knew? It might mean something to that pernicious bean-counter Gød."

"Truly, my boundless stupidity is something to behold."

"If no one blamed themselves for the things they could not help..." She gave him a faint smile as she turned away from the Athenaeum and led them on towards the place. "Wouldn't the whole Church go out of business?"

"In lieu of her, I had her stolen heart, the Excelsior, which would now beat in replacement of my discarded original. Funny how long I have depended on the thing -- for over a century. Like me, it is a machine of astonishing durability."

chat i'm back in the building again

"Divine intervention seemed like a long shot, honestly. God had folk packing into his churches and filling up his collection plates and living by his Twelve Virtues every saint's day, and as far as she could tell he rarely stepped in on their behalf, so the chances of him sending down an angel for a faithless piece of shit like her must've been close to nil. But she kept saying the words even so."

"Let me be your ally. I can complement what you lack."

fellas......

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"The walls are endlessly bare. Nothing hangs on them, nothing defines them. They are without texture. Even to the keenest eye or most sentient fingertip, they remain unreadable. You will never find a mark there. No trace survives. The walls obliterate everything. They are permanently absolved of all record. Oblique, forever obscure and unwritten. Behold the perfect pantheon of absence."

"and if the job being offered to Bagger is to serve as a bodyguard to messengers, two of them now, he accepts, what a gift that the most cataclysmic event in history has handed him a reason to live, not to sinply survive but to live"

"and mortars explode close enough to filigree brimstone onto the drifting whales of smoke, which cause Bagger and the others to do the trench dance, it's easy to do, you hold your helmet down, you do a little dip, and you believe in the fiction that being six inches lower will save you from the wrath of God,"

"a nagging voice insists it's a miracle, which only pisses him off, he'll be goddamned if he's going to start believing in miracles here in hell,"

"I never said stupid," Ben corrected me. "You're clever. We both know that. But you can be thoughtless. A clever, thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is."

"The Church is not that keen on God, in my experience," said Baron Rikard. "They think of him much as a lawyer thinks of the law. Something to be got around."

'"Honestly, Your Grace..." There had been a time, not so very long ago, when Brother Diaz would have fumbled for a self-serving falsehood, but frankly his heart wasn't in it any more. "I've no idea."'

"This is how it goes. Start the evening looking for fun, end the morning begging forgiveness."

"The creature does not know you, does not fear you, does not remember you, does not even see you. Be careful, beware."

"The creature does not know you, does not fear you, does not remember you, does not even see you. Be careful, beware."