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This one was excellent.
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This one was excellent.
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“I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.”
“Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.”
“I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.”
“I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.”
'People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”'
"If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!'"
“I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.”
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“That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They’re all guys!”
"The stars change, people change, and all we can do is assist the future with care and thoughtful determination to see the world at peace, even if it means ushering some of its worst threats to an early grave."
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
“That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They’re all guys!”
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“Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.”
“Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.”
"Polly had been soldiering for only a couple of days, but already an instinct had developed. In summary, it was this: lie to officers."
"Polly had been soldiering for only a couple of days, but already an instinct had developed. In summary, it was this: lie to officers."
"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it."
“We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.”
"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it."
“I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.”
“I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.”
“That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They’re all guys!”
"He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity."
“That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They’re all guys!”
“Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.”
'Every society needs a cry like that, but only in a very few do they come out with the complete, unvarnished version, which is “Remember-The-Atrocity-Committed-Against-Us-Last-Time-That-Will-Excuse-The-Atrocity-That-We’re-About-To-Commit-Today!"'
“Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it…”
“Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.”
it is also, according to every vet I've ever talked about it with, a fantastic book about being a soldier
it is also, according to every vet I've ever talked about it with, a fantastic book about being a soldier
“Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.”
“The children refused to disbelieve in the monsters because, frankly, they knew damn well the things were there. But she’d found that they could, very firmly, also believe in the poker.”
"‘If you kill me a thousand will take my place,’ said the man, who was now backed against the wall.
‘Yes,’ said Cohen, in a reasonable tone of voice, ‘but that isn’t the point is it? The point is, you’ll be dead.’"
“Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.”