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“Maybe that ain't the way it is for those who kill themselves. I think it ain't about wantin' to die but the bone-deep misery of not bein' able to live peacefully. Safely. Of dreamin' and prayin' for a better life but wakin' up to the same ole pain. Livin' is hard, that's for sure. But I think choosin' to die might be harder.”

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Book:Harriet's Escape: Harriet Tubman Reimagined

Source: Harriet's Escape: Harriet Tubman Reimagined

“Water reveals the sounds of the Otherworlds, to those who know how to listen.”

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Book:Atlantis: On the Shores of Forever

Source: Atlantis: On the Shores of Forever

“My legion has won many victories. And since you are my dearest friend, we will fight that much harder." His intense, dark eyes locked with hers. "I swear to you: Ker-Ys will not fall.”

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Book:Atlantis: On the Shores of Forever

Source: Atlantis: On the Shores of Forever

“I steel myself and look up. And up. The demon is a head taller than me. That realisation sticks in my mind and for a moment I don’t realise what has happened, why shocked whispers are ricocheting off the walls. Then I understand. The demon is male. I haven’t called a Hound at all.”

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Book:The Agent's Demon

Source: The Agent's Demon

“His eyebrows arch in a look born of condescension. The condescension isn’t important. It matters little what he thinks of me, as long as he can do his job. That sharp, lovely face is nothing more than a reminder of what he is: in the devil’s children, beauty is not to be trusted.”

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Book:The Agent's Demon

Source: The Agent's Demon

“These people...” Steel murmurs. “Why are they all here? Don’t they have...?” He makes an oblique gesture, as though the words he wants can’t fit into one sentence. “They’ve nowhere else to go, Mr. Steel,” I reply. “The Empire takes chunks of the world for itself, promising protection and safe haven in exchange for the scars it leaves behind. When people draw upon that promise, this is what they’re rewarded with.”

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Book:The Agent's Demon

Source: The Agent's Demon

“The demon watches me slide the pin back into my hair. “Is that a blade in your hat?” he whispers. “It’s a pin.” Never underestimate the power of a lady’s toilette, Turner had told me once.”

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Book:The Agent's Demon

Source: The Agent's Demon

“The woman with hair of flames knelt over me. She might have been pretty if not for the anger in every corner of her face. Emerald eyes glowed with almost seeping venom as her nostrils flared. - Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun”

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Book:Ethandun

Source: Ethandun

“There is no greater will on earth than the will to survive. These fine people, answering my father's call to arms, had the will in spades and droves. - Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun”

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Book:Ethandun

Source: Ethandun

“A tribe needed many stabilizers, as many as they could get”

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Book:The Strange Land

Source: The Strange Land

“I have a story to tell. It is a tale for those who can still see, can still question. A story of where you are and how you got here. A tale foretold by your poets and prophets through the ages. Read their words, their thoughts, so that you may understand.”

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Book:Resurrection: Americans Awaken

Source: Resurrection: Americans Awaken

“They had not buried her. They had planted a seed.”

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Book:The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom

Source: The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom

“She had to survive the next day. She had to survive the next hour.”

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Book:The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom

Source: The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom

“Bloodline is a claim to the past. Strength is a promise for the future.”

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Book:The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom

Source: The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom

“Power is perception, and she was learning to bend perception to her will.”

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Book:The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom

Source: The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom

“The price of peace is always less than the cost of war.”

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Book:The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom

Source: The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom

“A tiger must be patient, my boy. It does not roar until it is ready to strike.”

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Book:The Atlantic Gambit

Source: The Atlantic Gambit

“Aggressive is how you win, Arthur.”

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Book:The Atlantic Gambit

Source: The Atlantic Gambit

“Theirs was a bond forged from necessity, hurt, and a shared, intimate understanding of hell.”

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Book:The Burning God

Source: The Burning God

“He was in paradise”

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Book:The Strange Land

Source: The Strange Land

“This was the Paris of the strivers, of those who dwelt low, not high. This was not the Paris of balloonists. It was her Paris, and it was the same as it had been this morning. But she, perhaps, was not.”

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Book:Enchantée

Source: Enchantée

“His longing wove new patterns into the shiny black of his sphere. This time, he would kill. The thought satisfied him. He loved life for its propensity to be taken, loved the act of taking it.”

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Book:Obsidian Secrets

Source: Obsidian Secrets

“He was not a pretty man, but he had dazzled her by a slow dazzle with his bravery, his hard work, his complete absence of complaint.”

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Book:The Strange Land

Source: The Strange Land