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The audiobook is terrific. Wish I listened to it from the beginning

"Colon had always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't."

Possibly my least favourite trope in fantasy..

"Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo. And I am afraid to say that these days all I get is moo."

Part One: 5/5

“Only thus are we not slaves: if we can choose where we would walk. Failing that, all is mockery.”

“He could easily have given more, but he had remembered the old adage that you can always increase a fief, but to reduce one causes enmity. And treachery.”

“Buckkeep Castle was stuffed full of secrets, and half of them were not secrets at all. They were only the things we dared not ask one another for fear the answers would be unbearably painful.”

“I sat a time in silence, uncomfortable and yet basking in his regard. How strange to be loved simply for who I was.”