1. He was so eager to lay his hands on his prey that he could not wait at home, and he came forth to meet and to spy on his messengers. But he came too late, for once, and the battle was over and beyond his help before he reached these parts. He did not remain here long.
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2. Maybe you will see us both together one day and judge between us!’
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3. He refuses my peach, he refuses my castle, he even shunned my wedding …”
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4. wobei er sich eines sanften Tonfalls bediente, um das, was eigentlich eine scharfe Spitze war, weniger barsch klingen zu lassen und gleichzeitig dem Streit und der Kritik ein Ende zu setzen.
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5. Cannot eat, cannot rest, so diary instead.
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6. a second mouth yawned wide, the blood coming from him now in slow pulses.
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7. they tried to free the Kingslayer.”
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8. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone.
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9. “Robert could piss in a cup and men would call it wine, but I offer them pure cold water and they squint in suspicion and mutter to each other about how queer it tastes.”
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10. For a long time, the king did not speak. Then, very softly, he said, “I dream of it sometimes. Of Renly’s dying. A green tent, candles, a woman screaming. And blood.” Stannis looked down at his hands. “I was still abed when he died. Your Devan will tell you. He tried to wake me. Dawn was nigh and my lords were waiting, fretting. I should have been ahorse, armored. I knew Renly would attack at break of day. Devan says I thrashed and cried out, but what does it matter? It was a dream. I was in my tent when Renly died, and when I woke my hands were clean.”
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11. A whore learns to see the man, not his garb, or she turns up dead in an alley.”
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12. Her two older brothers had both died in infancy, so she had been son as well as daughter to Lord Hoster until Edmure was born. Then her mother had died and her father had told her that she must be the lady of Riverrun now, and she had done that too. And
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13. Roose Bolton’s bastard had meant less to him than one of his dogs,
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14. if I must kill every living soul within to make it so.”
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15. “A fate he no doubt earned,” Bolton had written. “Tainted blood is ever treacherous, and Ramsay’s nature was sly, greedy, and cruel. I count myself well rid of him. The trueborn sons my young wife has promised me would never have been safe while he lived.”
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16. the Rohirrim, the Horse-lords, do not sleep, even if it seem so from afar. Draw no weapon, speak no haughty word, I counsel
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17. Maybe your coming was not wholly unlooked-for. It is but two nights ago that Wormtongue came to us and said that by the will of Théoden no stranger should pass these gates.’
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18. ‘And I would do as the master of the house bade me, were this only a woodman’s cot, if I bore now any sword but Andúril.’
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19. ‘Prudence is one thing, but discourtesy is another. I am old. If I may not lean on my stick as I go, then I will sit out here, until it pleases Théoden to hobble out himself to speak with me.’
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20. ‘Yet in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom. I believe you are friends and folk worthy of honour, who have no evil purpose.
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21. Fire shall devour the high seat.
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22. Er kennt das Geheimnis, das die Dänen sollen nach Irland gebracht haben, Bier aus Heide zu brauen.
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23. But stories are allowed to be, so long as they’re honest.
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24. It’s a partnership, and although it might not seem equal on the surface, it actually is. Just because one person appears content to listen, it doesn’t mean the other – the speaker – doesn’t need and rely on them being there for the whole thing to have meaning. Love can be the same.
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25. She was like a man in that. For men the answer was always the same, and never further away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
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26.
Catelyn was sitting with her father when Edmure’s messenger
arrived. The man’s armor was dinted, his boots dusty, and he had a
ragged hole in his surcoat, but the look on his face as he knelt was
enough to tell her that the news was good.
“Victory, my
lady.” He handed her Edmure’s letter. Her hand trembled as she
broke the seal.
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27. sword’s a sword, a helm’s a helm, and if you reach in the fire you get burned, no matter who you’re serving.
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28. You could practically hear the pages whispering.
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29. ‘The Chief doesn’t hold with beer.
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30. ‘I told Sharkey it was no good trusting those little fools. Some of our chaps ought to have been sent.’
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31. The man stared at him and smiled. ‘A beggar in the wilderness!’ he mocked. ‘Oh, is he indeed?
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32. Tooks are lucky, they’ve got those deep holes in the Green Hills, the Great Smials and all, and the ruffians can’t come at ’em; and they won’t let the ruffians come on their land. If they do, Tooks hunt ’em. Tooks shot three for prowling and robbing. After that the ruffians turned nastier. And they keep a pretty close watch on Tookland. No one gets in nor out of it now.’
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33. But since Sharkey came they don’t grind no more corn at all. They’re always a-hammering and a-letting out a smoke and a stench,
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34. Frodo had been in the battle, but he had not drawn sword, and his chief part had been to prevent the hobbits in their wrath at their losses, from slaying those of their enemies who threw down their weapons.
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35. ‘No doubt, no doubt! But you did not, and so I am able to welcome you home.’ There standing at the door was Saruman himself, looking well-fed and well-pleased; his eyes gleamed with malice and amusement.
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36. Das Voralpenklima macht gemütskranke Menschen, die schon sehr früh dem Stumpfsinn anheim fallen und die mit der Zeit bösartig werden, sagte ich.
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37. Das Kind war in diese Existenzmaschine hineingeworfen worden von der Mutter, der Vater hielt diese Existenzmaschine, die den Sohn konsequent zerstückelte, lebenslänglich in Gang.
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38. You’re stronger than you seem, though. I expect you’ll survive a bit of humiliation.
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39. did not command it. I told you to do what needed to be done, and left you to decide what that would be.” Qhorin stood and slid his longsword back into its scabbard. “When I want a mountain scaled, I call on Stonesnake. Should I need to put an arrow through the eye of some foe across a windy battlefield, I summon Squire Dalbridge. Ebben can make any man give up his secrets. To lead men you must know them, Jon Snow.
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40. In war, his father had told him once, the battle is over in the instant one army breaks and flees. No matter that they’re as numerous as they were a moment before, still armed and armored, once they had run before you they would not turn to fight again.
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41. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.
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42. Ice can kill as dead as fire.
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43. “The dungeons are windowless. One hour is much like another down there, and for me, all hours are midnight.”
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44. Unlikely as it seemed, Reek could read and write, and he was possessed of enough base cunning to have hidden an account of what they’d done.
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45. I know many a man, and many a man knows Reek.”
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46. “Those are brave men,” he told Ser Balon in admiration. “Let’s go kill them.”
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47. Viele, denen es nicht gelingen wollte, durch lobenswerte Taten Ruhm zu erwerben, suchten ihn durch schändliche Handlungen zu erlangen.
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48. Nur die Verräter und Kühnen brechen die Ketten, nur Räuber und Betrüger machen sich von der Armut los.
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49. Anders betragen sich schwache Menschen, die, aufgebläht und berauscht vom Glück, alles Gute, dessen sie sich erfreuen dürfen, Fähigkeiten zuschreiben, die sie niemals besaßen.
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50. Es gab in ihr immer so viel Gutes wie Böses, allein dieses Gute und dieses Böse wechselte von Land zu Land.
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51. Nicht das ist daher das Heil einer Republik oder einer Monarchie, einen Fürsten zu haben, der sie weise regiert, solange er lebt, sondern daß ein Fürst ihr solche Einrichtungen gibt, daß sie sich auch nach seinem Tode noch erhält.
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52. Es ist eine allgemeine und untrügliche Regel: ein Fürst, der nicht Verstand genug hat, kann nicht gut beraten werden, es sei denn, daß er sich einem sehr klugen Manne anvertraute. Von diesem könnte er allerdings gut geleitet werden; aber es würde nicht lange dauern, denn ein solcher Minister würde ihn bald um seinen Staat bringen.
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53. Bei genauer Untersuchung erweist sich nämlich, daß manches, was als Tugend erscheint, einen Herrscher stürzen würde und manches andere, was als Laster erscheint, ihn erhebt und sichert.
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54. Die Menschen scheuen sich weniger, einen geliebten Fürsten zu beleidigen als einen gefürchteten. Denn die Liebe wird durch das Band der Pflicht erhalten, und weil die Menschen schlecht sind, zerreißen sie dieses Band bei jeder Aussicht auf eigenen Vorteil.
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55. denn wer an Unabhängigkeit gewöhnt ist, den drückt jede Kette, den zwängt jedes Band.
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56. “Hope that’s not weasel soup,” he jested.
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57.
“I am not in the habit of being questioned by servants, Nan. Must I
have your tongue out?” He would do it as easily as another man
might cuff a dog, she knew.
“No, my lord.”
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58. A soldier stretched out his hand and then recoiled, eyes cutting quickly to Clifford, who nodded, said, ‘Get him on his feet.’
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59. The darkness was shot through with a blood-red haze, swirling colours of hot, hurtful brightness that faded then into blackness.
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60. ‘Jesus, my lord, his hands are bound!’ a soldier was crying, as if this had somehow escaped Clifford and needed only be called to his notice. Held immobile by men who looked scarcely less horror-struck than he did, Rob jerked wildly at his ropes, shouted at Clifford, ‘Think, man, think! He’s a prince’s son, will do you more good alive than dead!’
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61. for a time, tried to forget the opinion she’d long ago formed of her celebrated nephew, that he reminded her of the trick ebony wood boxes she’d seen sold at faires, glossy and eye-catching boxes painted in dazzling patterns of gold and vermilion, which, upon closer inspection, were found to be sealed shut, never meant to be opened at all.
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62. Next came four of lesser birth who had distinguished themselves in the fighting: the one-eyed knight Ser Philip Foote, who had slain Lord Bryce Caron in single combat; the freerider Lothor Brune, who’d cut his way through half a hundred Fossoway men-at-arms to capture Ser Jon of the green apple and kill Ser Bryan and Ser Edwyd of the red, thereby winning himself the name Lothor Apple-Eater; Willit, a grizzled man-at-arms in the service of Ser Harys Swyft, who’d pulled his master from beneath his dying horse and defended him against a dozen attackers; and a downy-cheeked squire named Josmyn Peckledon, who had killed two knights, wounded a third, and captured two more, though he could not have been more than fourteen. Willit was borne in on a litter, so grievous were his wounds. Ser Kevan had taken a seat beside his brother.
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63.
Lord Tywin rose to his feet.
“We continue,” he said, in a
clear strong voice that silenced the murmurs. “Those who wish to
ask pardon for their treasons may do so. We will have no more
follies.” He moved to the Iron Throne and there seated himself on a
step, a mere three feet off the floor.
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64. Had it been Theon with a noose around his neck and Lord Balon commanding the army without, the warhorns would already have sounded the attack, he had no doubt. He should thank the gods that Ser Rodrik was not ironborn. The men of the green lands were made of softer stuff, though he was not certain they would prove soft enough.
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65.
“Ser Rodrik had you five-to-one.”
“Aye, but he thought us
friends. A common mistake. When the old fool gave me his hand, I took
half his arm instead.
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66. Other councils, such as the Ten of War, the Eight of Security and the Six of Commerce, were elected from time to time as the circumstances of the Republic demanded.
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67. He was rarely to be seen walking the streets of the city, never with more than one servant in attendance, and always quietly dressed, scrupulous in giving the wall to older citizens and ‘showing the utmost deference to the magistrates’.
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68. When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?
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69. Pretty eyes, he thought, and calm.
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70. “My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.
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71. “Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.
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72. “Gallant, yes, and charming, and very clean. He knew how to dress and he knew how to smile and he knew how to bathe, and somehow he got the notion that this made him fit to be king.
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73. No, don’t blush, with your hair it makes you look like a pomegranate. All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.
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74.
Shall I sing it standing on my head, my lady?”
“Will that
make it sound better?”
“No.”
“Stand on your feet,
then. We wouldn’t want your hat to fall off. As I recall, you never
wash your hair.”
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75. but if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.)
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76. the horror, would occur when his wife brought him back – brought him, in a fantastic and unaccountable manner (so he felt), to a strange home he had never seen, full of strangers, and then left him. ‘What are you doing?’ he would scream, terrified and confused. ‘What in the hell is this place? What the hell’s going on?’ These scenes were almost unbearable to watch, and must have seemed like madness, or nightmare, to the patient.
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77.
‘Voldemort had powers I will never have.’
‘Only because
you’re too – well – noble to use them.’
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78. He laughed nervously. ‘You’ll be g-getting all your equipment, I suppose? I’ve g-got to p-pick up a new b-book on vampires, m-myself.’ He looked terrified at the very thought.
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79. They were cold and empty and made you think of dark tunnels. ‘You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making,’ he began. He spoke in barely more than a whisper, but they caught every word – like Professor McGonagall, Snape had the gift of keeping a class silent without effort.
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80. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
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81. ‘Only one who has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, would commit such a crime. The blood of a unicorn will keep you alive, even if you are an inch from death, but at a terrible price. You have slain something pure and defenceless to save yourself and you will have but a half life, a cursed life, from the moment the blood touches your lips.’
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82. ‘Can you think of nobody who has waited many years to return to power, who has clung to life, awaiting their chance?’
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83. ‘What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally, the whole school knows.
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84. ‘Didn’t you hear him as we were leaving? He was asking that bloke from the Daily Prophet if he’d be able to work the fight into his report – said it was all publicity.’
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85. Snape’s upper lip was curling. Harry wondered why Lockhart was still smiling; if Snape had been looking at him like that he’d have been running as fast as he could in the opposite direction.
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86. He strode to the cabin door, opened it and bowed Dumbledore out.
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87. Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
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88. “Is it pepper stinging my eyes, or tears? Is this the knight of the onions who stands before me? No, how can it be, my dear friend Davos died on the burning river, all agree. Why has he come to haunt me?”
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89. “When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
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90. ‘You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?
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91. “Sam,” Edd said when he saw him, “would you wake me, please? I am having this terrible nightmare.”
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92. Dudley, had finally achieved what he’d been threatening to do since the age of three, and become wider than he was tall.
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93. One of them was a very old wizard who was wearing a long flowery nightgown. The other was clearly a Ministry wizard; he was holding out a pair of pinstriped trousers and almost crying with exasperation.
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94. Muggle-Repelling Charms on every inch of it. Every time Muggles have got anywhere near here all year, they’ve suddenly remembered urgent appointments and had to dash away again
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95. He wanted to attend the feast – well, it’s quite out of the question, you know what he’s like, utterly uncivilised, can’t see a plate of food without throwing it. We held a ghosts’ council – the Fat Friar was all for giving him the chance – but most wisely, in my opinion, the Bloody Baron put his foot down.’
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96. I might remind you that your pincushion, Thomas, still curls up in fright if anyone approaches it with a pin!’
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97. Sirius looked at him, eyes full of concern, eyes which had not yet lost the look that Azkaban had given them – that deadened, haunted look.
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98. ‘Professor Dumbledore offered Dobby ten Galleons a week, and weekends off,’ said Dobby, suddenly giving a little shiver, as though the prospect of so much leisure and riches was frightening, ‘but Dobby beat him down, miss … Dobby likes freedom, miss, but he isn’t wanting too much, miss, he likes work better.’
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99.
Skeeter cow – sorry, Professor,’ he added quickly, looking at
Dumbledore.
‘I have gone temporarily deaf and haven’t any
idea what you said, Harry,’ said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs
and staring at the ceiling.
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100. He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out OK even if their families weren’ … well … all tha’ respectable.
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101. If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.’
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102. ‘Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. He needs to know who has put him through the ordeal he has suffered tonight, and why.’
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103. If I thought I could help you,’ Dumbledore said gently, ‘by putting you into an enchanted sleep, and allowing you to postpone the moment when you would have to think about what has happened tonight, I would do it. But I know better.
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104. ‘This is night, Diddykins. That’s what we call it when it goes all dark like this.’
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105. But you see what they’re doing? They want to turn you into someone nobody will believe. Fudge is behind it, I’ll bet anything.
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106. my idiot brother, soft enough to believe them … that’s him.’
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107. ‘Quite astonishing, the way you continue to wriggle out of very tight holes … snakelike, in fact.’
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108. Professor McGonagall closed her eyes as though praying for patience as she turned her face towards Professor Umbridge again.
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109. ‘Would you say it was nothing if one of us turned up with a pound of mince instead of a face?’ Ron demanded.
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110. Lupin strolled away from the bed and over to the werewolf, who had no visitors and was looking rather wistfully at the crowd around Mr Weasley;
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111. The Dark Lord, for instance, almost always knows when somebody is lying to him.
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112. ‘Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked so easily
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113. ‘Well – it’s just that you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to – what is the phrase? – come quietly. I am afraid I am not going to come quietly at all, Cornelius. I have absolutely no intention of being sent to Azkaban. I could break out, of course – but what a waste of time, and frankly, I can think of a whole host of things I would rather be doing.’
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114. What was making Harry feel so horrified and unhappy was not being shouted at or having jars thrown at him; it was that he knew how it felt to be humiliated in the middle of a circle of onlookers, knew exactly how Snape had felt as his father had taunted him, and that judging from what he had just seen, his father had been every bit as arrogant as Snape had always told him.
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115. ‘The thing about growing up with Fred and George,’ said Ginny thoughtfully, ‘is that you sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.’
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116. At this moment, Professor Umbridge gave a very tiny cough, as though she was trying to see how quietly she could do it.
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117.
Professor Umbridge gave her most pronounced cough yet.
‘May I
offer you a cough drop, Dolores?’ Professor McGonagall asked
curtly, without looking at Professor Umbridge.
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118. ‘Oh yes,’ she said in a steely voice, crashing through the undergrowth with what he thought was a wholly unnecessary amount of noise.
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119. The light was dimmer than it had been by day; there were no fires burning under the mantelpieces set into the walls, but as the lift slid smoothly to a halt he saw that golden symbols continued to twist sinuously in the dark blue ceiling.
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120. ‘Merely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit –’
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121. ‘You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.’
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122. ‘He regarded him as a servant unworthy of much interest or notice. Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike …
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123.
‘I expect what you’re not aware of would fill several books,
Dursley,’ growled Moody.
‘Anyway, that’s not the point,’
interjected Tonks,
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124.
‘Are you threatening me, sir?’ he said, so loudly that passers-by
actually turned to stare.
‘Yes, I am,’ said Mad-Eye, who
seemed rather pleased that Uncle Vernon had grasped this fact so
quickly.
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125. And I must say, you’re taking it a lot better than your predecessor. He tried to throw me out of the window, thought I was a hoax planned by the opposition.’
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126. Fudge attempted to smile, but was unsuccessful; he merely looked as though he had toothache.
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127. ‘Yes, indeed, most admirable,’ said Snape in a bored voice. ‘Of course, you weren’t a lot of use to him in prison, but the gesture was undoubtedly fine –’
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128. ‘Don’t you dare – don’t you dare blame my husband!’ said Narcissa, in a low and deadly voice, looking up at her sister.
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129. He seemed remarkably unabashed for a man who had just been discovered pretending to be an armchair.
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130. He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself; he prefers the back seat – more room to spread out, you see.
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131. ‘When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love
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132. ‘He died some time ago, but not before I had tracked him down and persuaded him to confide these recollections to me.
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133. It’s my job, he gave it to me and I’m doing it. I’ve got a plan and it’s going to work, it’s just taking a bit longer than I thought it would!’
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134. ‘Where do you think I would have been all these years, if I had not known how to act? Now listen to me!
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stopping squarely in the fireplace in Professor McGonagall’s
office. She barely glanced up from her work as he clambered out over
the grate.
‘Evening, Potter. Try not to get too much ash on
the carpet.’
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136. ‘Yeah, when we pictured the scene, he was conscious,’ said Fred.
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137. Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything.
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138. He had extinguished the proud Reynes of Castamere and the ancient Tarbecks of Tarbeck Hall root and branch when he was still half a boy. The singers had even made a rather gloomy song of it. Some years later, when Lord Farman of Faircastle grew truculent, Lord Tywin sent an envoy bearing a lute instead of a letter. But once he’d heard “The Rains of Castamere” echoing through his hall, Lord Farman gave no further trouble.
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139. “Lord Umber,” said Robb, “this one was only the watcher. Hang him last, so he may watch the others die.
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140. It was very well done, thought Harry, the hesitancy, the casual tone, the careful flattery, none of it overdone. He, Harry, had had too much experience of trying to wheedle information out of reluctant people not to recognise a master at work. He could tell that Riddle wanted the information very, very much; perhaps had been working towards this moment for weeks.
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141. Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realise that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
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142. By now there must be hundreds of us sworn to him, maybe thousands, but it wouldn’t do for us all to trail along behind him. We’d eat the country bare, or get butchered in a battle by some bigger host. The way we’re scattered in little bands, we can strike in a dozen places at once, and be off somewhere else before they know.
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143. the Liddle was gone, but he’d left a sausage for them, and a dozen oatcakes folded up neatly in a green and white cloth.
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144. The White Swords had come, to welcome a new brother to their ranks.
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145. “Sometimes the knights are the monsters, Bran.
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146. and finally her own father, who danced with smooth unsmiling grace.
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147. We opened half a hundred graves and let all those shades loose in the world,
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148. Bolton’s silence was a hundred times more threatening than Vargo Hoat’s slobbering malevolence. Pale as morning mist, his eyes concealed more than they told. Jaime misliked those eyes.
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149. “She is well. As is your … nephew.” Bolton paused before he said nephew, a pause that said I know.
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150. When did a black bird ever bring good to a man’s hall, I ask you? Never. Never.”
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151. The castellan finished the king’s half-full cup, peered into the jug and cursed.
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152. And that is what I have come to talk about. Answer me unofficially, briefly and clearly: will it work or not? Don’t hide behind your code.’
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153. One day I ride up and what do I see? A bridge. And under that bridge sits a troll and demands every passerby pays him. Those who refuse have a leg injured, sometimes both. So I go to the alderman: “How much will you give me for that troll?” He’s amazed. “What are you talking about?” he asks, “Who will repair the bridge if the troll’s not there? He repairs it regularly with the sweat of his brow, solid work, first rate. It’s cheaper to pay his toll.”
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154. ‘People,’ Geralt turned his head, ‘like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.’
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155. ‘Make use of the opportunity to have a bath yourself. I can not only guess the age and breed of your horse, but also its colour, by the smell.’
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156.
‘How would you prefer it, in verse or in normal speech?’
‘Normal
speech.’
‘As you please,’ Dandelion said, not putting his
lute down. ‘Listen then, noble gentlemen, to what occurred a week
ago near the free town of Barefield. ‘Twas thus, that at the crack
of dawn, when the rising sun had barely tinged pink the shrouds of
mist hanging pendent above the meadows—’
‘It was supposed
to be normal speech,’ Geralt reminded him.
‘Isn’t
it? Very well, very well. I understand. Concise, without metaphors. A
dragon alighted on the pastures outside Barefield.’
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‘Yen? Can you find a hold? Using your legs? Can you do anything
with your legs?’
‘Yes,’ she groaned. ‘Swing them
around.’
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158. ‘Be quiet,’ Dandelion said, ‘I’m trying to remember it, perhaps I’ll be able to use it if I can get it to rhyme.’
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159. ‘The doughty Eyck of Denesle may now be taken from the battlefield, for he is incapable of fighting any longer. Next, please.’
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160. The small man with the ratty face slowly removed his knee from Geralt’s chest. ‘Next time . . .’ Geralt heard the clear whisper, ‘next time you feel like killing yourself, Witcher, don’t drag other people into it. Just hang yourself in the stable from your reins.’
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161.
‘Greetings to one and all! Good day!’ he bellowed, entering the
tavern and plucking the lute strings hard with his thumb. ‘Master
Dandelion, the most renowned poet in this land, has visited your
tawdry establishment, landlord! For he has a will to drink beer! Do
you mark the honour I do you, swindler?’
‘I do,’ said the
innkeeper morosely, leaning forward over the bar. ‘I’m content to
see you, minstrel, sir. I see that your word is indeed your bond.
After all, you promised to stop by first thing to pay for yesterday’s
exploits. And I – just imagine – presumed you were lying, as
usual. I swear I am ashamed.’
‘There is no need to feel
shame, my good man,’ the troubadour said light-heartedly, ‘for I
have no money. We shall converse about that later.’
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162.
‘That he doesn’t want a tail!’ ‘Then tell him . . . Tell him
to dry up!’
‘What did she say?’
‘She told you,’
the Witcher translated, ‘to go drown yourself.’
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163. ‘I do not bring flowers,’ she said, lifting her head. ‘But the ones lying here are for me.’
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164. the children dashed into the woods with wild cries, and enthusiastically immersed themselves in a game whose rules were incomprehensible to all those who had bidden farewell to the happy years of childhood.
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165. ‘You catch fear,’ Ciri repeated proudly, brushing her ashen fringe from her forehead. ‘Didn’t you know? Even when something bad happens to you, you have to go straight back to that piece of equipment or you get frightened. And if you’re frightened you’ll be hopeless at the exercise. You mustn’t give up. Geralt said so.’
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166. He fell silent and looked at Ciri who, with a joyful squeal, acknowledged that she had the upper hand in the game. Triss spied a small smile on Coën’s face and was sure he had allowed her to win.
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167.
‘I’m not tired!’
‘But I am. I said, a break. Come down
from the comb.’
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168. Cranes, standing on one leg, gazed at the water with stoical calm, knowing there was no point in getting worked up – sooner or later a fish would swim up of its own accord.
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169. A popular saying at King Vizimir’s court held that if Dijkstra states it is noon yet darkness reigns all around, it is time to start worrying about the fate of the sun.
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‘Of course,’ lied the spy. ‘I’ll call them off. Is it
possible you don’t believe me?’
‘Nothing of the kind,’
lied the poet. ‘I believe you.’
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171. ‘Magic always leaves traces,’ said Dumbledore, as the boat hit the bank with a gentle bump, ‘sometimes very distinctive traces. I taught Tom Riddle. I know his style.’
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172. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.’
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173. take my responsibilities seriously, and they consist of warning the king against making mistakes. Sometimes – as in this particular instance – I am not allowed to tell the king outright that he is committing a mistake, or to dissuade him from a hasty action. I simply have to render it impossible for him to make a mistake. You understand what I’m saying?’
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174. ‘Meve, as usual, does not say much but she hits the nail on the head.
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175. You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.’
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176. From Myhrman’s homestead on the canal came the broken, uncoordinated gibberish of the charlatan who had been put, by Philippa Eilhart’s treatment, into a state of complete and, no doubt, permanent idiocy.
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177. ‘I believe you,’ said the magician with a smile. ‘I believe you will. But not today, Geralt. Not now. Because in a minute you’re going to faint from loss of blood. Shani, are you ready?’
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178. “The maesters say it comes from the fires of the earth. They call it obsidian.” Mormont snorted. “They can call it lemon pie for all I care. If it kills as you claim, I want more of it.”
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179. “The monster won’t fly away, he’ll spend the entire night eating the dead knight, nice and slow, because the knight’s in armour and it’s hard to pick out the meat.”
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180.
Hundreds were taken with their lord, and bent the knee when he did.”
“When he did,” Davos repeated. “They were his men. His
sworn men. What choice were they given?”
“Every man has
choices. They might have refused to kneel. Some did, and died for it.
Yet they died true men, and loyal.”
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181. “Maester Pylos can read for you. As to writing, my last Hand wrote the head off his shoulders. All I ask of you are the things you’ve always given me. Honesty. Loyalty. Service.”
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182. If anyone had difficulties, troubles, problems, they went to Codringher.
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183. ‘That’s the role of poetry, Ciri. To say what others cannot utter.’
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184. Have some more food, because your stomach’s rumbling.
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185. Geralt stood in front of the entrance to the tower, drew his sword and heaved a sigh. He had sincerely hoped that the dramatic, concluding fight would be played out between Vilgefortz and Philippa Eilhart. He didn’t have the least bit of interest in this kind of drama.
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186.
‘Do you not rejoice, Chamberlain, sir?’
‘That I do. But
I’m able to do it quietly.’
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187. The bards were just composing a ballad about the victorious military operation, about the prowess of the king, the prudence of the commanders and the bravery of the humble foot soldier. As usual, to save time, they were doing it before the operation.
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188. And when I have the chance, I’ll exchange her for a horse that knows how to carry a wounded rider and, when its rider falls, remains by him. It’s clear this mare wasn’t taught to do that.’
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189.
A round little tick of a northman name of Nage went before
Steelshanks with the peace banner; a rainbow-striped flag with seven
long tails, on a staff topped by a seven-pointed star.
“Shouldn’t
you northmen have a different sort of peace banner?” he asked
Walton. “What are the Seven to you?”
“Southron gods,”
the man said, “but it’s a southron peace we need, to get you safe
to your father.”
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190. The moss covered it so thickly he had not noticed before, but now he saw that the wood was white.
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“What are you doing here?”
“Something stupid.
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193. “Go,” said the bird on his shoulder. “Go, go, go.”
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194. Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe …
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195.
The woman gave an angry little titter. ‘Think your little jokes’ll
help you on your death bed, then?’ she jeered.
‘Jokes? No,
no, these are manners,’ replied Dumbledore.
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196. The Watch is not what it was. Too few honest men to keep the rogues in line.”
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197. Yet he is a good fighter, as cunning as he is fearless.
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198. “Because knights are fools, and it would have been beneath him to look twice at some poxy peasant.” He gave the horses a lick with the whip. “Keep your eyes down and your tone respectful and say ser a lot, and most knights will never see you. They pay more mind to horses than to smallfolk. He might have known Stranger if he’d ever seen me ride him.”
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199. Beneath a tree, four archers were slipping waxed strings over the notches of their longbows, but they were not her father’s archers
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200. Roose Bolton murmured some words too soft to hear and went off in search of a privy.
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201. Never once had he imagined Dumbledore’s childhood or youth; it was as though he had sprung into being as Harry had known him, venerable and silver-haired and old.
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202. ich habe die Empfindung, daß bei den letzten Vernehmungen ich mich ziemlich konfus ausgedrückt haben muß, denn die Verhörenden blickten sich manchmal befremdet an.
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203. he vanished from view and then dropped like a boulder from behind it, his broomstick broken into pieces. One of his fellows slowed up to save him, but they and the airborne wall were swallowed by darkness as Hagrid leaned low over the handlebars and sped up.
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204. but the companion who had slowed to save their unconscious friend had caught up:
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205. Voldemort was flying like smoke on the wind, without broomstick or Thestral to hold him
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206. And any man who must say ‘I am the king’ is no true king at all.
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207. “No one was told, save those who had a part to play. And they were only told as much as they needed to know.
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208. That loose tongue of yours will be your undoing.”
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209. Yet he saw himself as a hero, and heroes do not kill children.”
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210. Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.” When Tyrion had no reply to that, his father continued.
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211. Only death can pay for life.”
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212.
Davos persisted. “Your daughter takes her lessons with him, and
plays with him every day in Aegon’s Garden.”
“I know
that.”
“Her heart would break if anything ill should—”
“I know that as well.”
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213. saw a king, a crown of fire on his brows, burning … burning, Davos. His own crown consumed his flesh and turned him into ash.
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214. We … fear … Mormont slain with all … with all his … stench … no, strength.
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215. His father had always said that in battle a captain’s lungs were as important as his sword arm.
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216. “The boar can keep his tusks and the bear his claws,” he had declared, smiling that way he did. “There’s nothing half so mortal as a grey goose feather.”
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217. ‘Mistress Philippa, hem, hem, does not like expressions of that kind. I have written: “that scoundrel”.’
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‘The prisoner?’
‘On the wagon. In a coffin.’
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219. There were six of them, dressed in short, hooded capes, shimmering with countless shades of grey and brown, the kind which were usually worn by dwarves in foul weather. Capes like that, as Geralt knew, had the quality of being totally waterproof, which was achieved by the impregnation of wood tar over many years, not to mention dust from the highway and the remains of greasy food. These practical garments passed from fathers to oldest sons; as a result they were used exclusively by mature dwarves. And a dwarf attains maturity when his beard reaches his waist, which usually occurs at the age of fifty-five.
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220. ‘Saddle horses,’ he said, wrinkling his nose in disapproval. ‘In other words: useless. Figgis and Caleb, to the shaft. We’ll be hauling in turn. Maaaaarch!’
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221. Whenever he did, he would have a handful of blackberries, nuts or strange – but clearly tasty – roots for the four children sitting on the wagon.
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222.
It doesn’t have any ears, but hears, so to speak, with its entire
body. In particular it can’t bear metallic noises. It feels them as
a pain . . .’
‘Even in the arse,’ Zoltan interrupted. ‘I
know, because it pained me too when you started whacking that lid. If
the monster has more sensitive hearing than I do, he has my sympathy.
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223. You’re like children! Instead of eating a doughnut systematically, you gouge the jam out with a finger and then throw away the rest because it’s not sweet any more.’
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224. The further they went, the worse it became. Zoltan’s comparison with a jam doughnut turned out to be less than apt; the road was coming to resemble a suet pudding with all the raisins gouged out.
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225. Percival hadn’t been wrong. The man did indeed somewhat resemble a tax collector.
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226. ‘Something so banal and melodramatic,’ Dandelion said with conviction, indicating the moving scene, ‘could only happen in real life. If I tried to end one of my ballads like that, I would be ribbed mercilessly.’
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227. The priest must, however, have belonged to one of the newer religious sects. The older ones were concerned with more useful matters than catching girls, tying them to wagons and inciting superstitious mobs against them.
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228.
‘It’s a shame about that cat,’ Percival Schuttenbach suddenly
said in a loud voice. ‘It was a fine beast, sleek and fat. Fur
shining like anthracite, eyes like two chrysoberyls, long whiskers,
and a tail as thick as a mechanical’s tool! Everything you could
want in a cat. He must have caught plenty of mice!’ The peasants
fell silent.
‘And how would you know, Master Gnome?’
someone asked. ‘How do you know what the cat looked like?’
Percival Schuttenbach cleared his nose and wiped his fingers on a
trouser leg.
‘Because he’s sitting over there on a cart.
Right behind you.’
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229. Verden subjugated to Emhyr, Brugge practically defeated, Sodden in flames . . . And we’re in retreat, in constant retreat . . . My apologies, I meant to say we are “executing tactical withdrawals”.
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230. ‘Thirdly,’ the Witcher replied in a tired voice, ‘the monthly quota on miracles was used up when the woman from Kernow found her missing husband.’
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231.
‘Stop wittering and concentrate. We aren’t free yet. Wrap that
cape around you and let’s cross the field. If anyone stops us we’re
pretending to be soldiers.’
‘Right. If anything happens
I’ll say—’
‘We’re pretending to be stupid soldiers.
Let’s go.’
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232. A bat or nightjar flashed past in a beam of moonlight.
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233. The wound’s just right for a poet, Dandelion. You’ll look like a war hero, with a proud bandage around your head, and the hearts of the maidens looking at you will melt like wax. Yes, a truly poetic wound.
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234. lone wolf! But you can see he’s no hunter, that he’s a stranger to the forest. Wolves don’t hunt alone! Never! A lone wolf, ha, what twaddle, foolish townie nonsense. But he doesn’t understand that!’
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235.
‘What a company I ended up with,’ Geralt continued, shaking his
head. ‘Brothers in arms! A team of heroes! What have I done to
deserve it? A poetaster with a lute. A wild and lippy half-dryad,
half-woman. A vampire, who’s about to notch up his fifth century.
And a bloody Nilfgaardian who insists he isn’t a Nilfgaardian.’
‘And leading the party is the Witcher, who suffers from pangs
of conscience, impotence and the inability to take decisions,’
Regis finished calmly. ‘I suggest we travel incognito, to avoid
arousing suspicion.’
‘Or raising a laugh,’ Milva added.
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236. No one suspects I ended up in your pocket, shrunken down and packed up. Everybody is convinced I escaped to Nilfgaard with my fellow conspirators. Everybody apart from the real conspirators, naturally, but they won’t be correcting that error. For a war is raging, and disinformation is a weapon whose blade must always be kept sharp.
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237. Falka passed into legend as a bloodthirsty demon, although actually it is more likely she simply lost control of the situation and of the slogans displayed on the insurrectionary standards. “Death To Kings”; “Death To Sorcerers”; “Death To Priests, Nobility, Gentry and Anybody Well-To-Do”; and soon after: “Death To Everyone and Everything”,
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238. One of the agents accompanying Dijkstra looked into the dungeon, stepped back sharply, leant against the wall and went as white as a sheet, looking as though he would faint at any moment. Dijkstra made a mental note to transfer the milksop to office work.
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239.
‘Occasionally one happens to see another person for only a split
second, right before going blind, and one takes a dislike to them
instantly.’
‘Oh, enmity is considerably more complicated,’
Fringilla said, squinting. ‘Imagine someone you don’t know at all
standing at the top of a hill, and ripping a friend of yours to
shreds in front of your eyes. You neither saw them nor know them at
all, but you still don’t like them.’
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240. ‘I would warn a friend,’ Fringilla said quietly, ‘that even if she were in possession of the components for teleportation spells, she wouldn’t be able to break the blockade undetected. An operation of that kind demands time and is too conspicuous. An unobtrusive but energetic attractor is a little better. I repeat: a little better. Teleportation using an improvised attractor, as you are no doubt aware, is very risky. I would try to dissuade a friend from taking such a risk. But you aren’t a friend.’ Fringilla spilt a sprinkling of seawater from the shell she was holding onto the table. ‘And on that note, we’ll end our banal conversation,’ she said. ‘The lodge demands mutual loyalty from us. Friendship, fortunately, isn’t compulsory.’
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241. ‘Regis just told you to fuck off. He just said it more politely.
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242. ‘Your mutated race is capable of regenerating its fingernails, toenails, hair and epidermis, but is unable to accept the fact that other races are more advanced in that respect. That inability is not the result of your primitiveness. Quite the opposite: it’s a result of egotism and a conviction in your own perfection. Anything that is more perfect than you must be a repulsive aberration. And repulsive aberrations are consigned to myths, for sociological reasons.’
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243. “English, of course. The universal language of science.” Langdon had always heard math was the universal language of science, but he was too tired to argue.
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244. As a scientist I have come to learn that information is only as valuable as its source. Your credentials seemed authentic.”
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245. Overhead the fluorescents flickered on to light her path. The effect was unsettling, Langdon thought, as if the tunnel were alive . . . anticipating her every move. Langdon and Kohler followed, trailing a distance behind. The lights extinguished automatically behind them.
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246. Ethain asked when, in the druids’ opinion, this dreadful time of hunger would occur, and they said in about two thousand years, according to their forecasts. The king bade them a courteous farewell and requested that they drop by in around a thousand years, when he would think it over. The mistletoers didn’t get the joke and began to protest, so they were thrown out.’
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247. ‘There now, Mister, that’ll do. It’s the Chief’s orders that you’re to come along quiet. We’re going to take you to Bywater and hand you over to the Chief’s Men; and when he deals with your case you can have your say. But if you don’t want to stay in the Lockholes any longer than you need, I should cut the say short, if I was you.’
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248. “Somebody,” said an amused voice above him, “wasn’t listening, was he?”
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249. Ohne zu zögern rannte der gesamte Polizeitross hinter dem Privatdetektiv und der schönen Frau her, bereit, die sterblichen Überreste von Horatio Strum rechtzeitig zu erreichen, bevor irgendjemand auf die Idee kam, dass es überhaupt keinen Grund zur Eile gab.
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250.
these things are important enough to pass on right under the nose of
the Ministry, you’d think he’d have let us know why … unless he
thought it was obvious?’
‘Thought wrong, then, didn’t
he?’ said Ron. ‘I always said he was mental. Brilliant, and
everything, but cracked.
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251. The soldier pushed the peasant through the door and lowered his hood. It was Foltest himself.
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252. „Ich bin ein erwachsenes Kind, ich darf selbst entscheiden, wann ich nicht frühstücke. Danke“, erwiderte Henry trotzig.
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253. ‘Certainly I knew him longest, if you don’t count Aberforth – and somehow, people never do seem to count Aberforth.’
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254.
‘How’s the wine? Have you noticed that it’s made from grapes
and not apples? But if you don’t like it I’ll conjure up a
different one.’
‘Thank you, it’s not bad.
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255. He could see Easy spinning and slashing, laughing like a loon, his cloak flapping as he leapt from cask to cask. A bronze axe caught him just below the knee and the laughter turned into a bubbling shriek.
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256. The arrow was black, Jon saw, but it was fletched with white duck feathers. Not mine, he told himself, not one of mine. But he felt as if it were.
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257. Benjen Stark never said the tales were true, but he never said they weren’t; he only shrugged and said, “We left the Nightfort two hundred years ago,” as if that was an answer.
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258. This was harder, like trying to pull a left boot on your right foot. It fit all wrong, and the boot was scared too, the boot didn’t know what was happening, the boot was pushing the foot away. He tasted vomit in the back of Hodor’s throat, and that was almost enough to make him flee.
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259. The door opened its eyes.
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260.
But as Brown Ben was leaving, Viserion spread his pale white wings
and flapped lazily at his head. One of the wings buffeted the
sellsword in his face. The white dragon landed awkwardly with one
foot on the man’s head and one on his shoulder, shrieked, and flew
off again.
“He likes you, Ben,” said Dany.
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261. The eunuchs were very clean, she had noticed. Some of her sellswords smelled as if they had not washed or changed their clothes since her father lost the Iron Throne, but the Unsullied bathed each evening, even if they’d marched all day. When no water was available they cleansed themselves with sand, the Dothraki way.
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262. know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.
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263. “I do so hope he plays us ‘The Rains of Castamere.’ It has been an hour, I’ve forgotten how it goes.”
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264. “No talk!” the oarsman growled again. “Sound carries over water, Ser Fool.”
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265. A bag of dragons buys a man’s silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.”
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266. Sacrifice … is never easy, Davos. Or it is no true sacrifice.
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267.
Ser Meryn got a stubborn look on his face. “Are you telling us not
to obey the king?”
“The king is eight. Our first duty is to
protect him, which includes protecting him from himself. Use that
ugly thing you keep inside your helm. If Tommen wants you to saddle
his horse, obey him. If he tells you to kill his horse, come to me.”
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268. He’s me, Jaime realized suddenly. I am speaking to myself, as I was, all cocksure arrogance and empty chivalry. This is what it does to you, to be too good too young.
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269. The choice will be yours. Accuse her, or release her. All I ask is that you judge her fairly, on your honor as a knight.”
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270. Nothing discourages unwanted questions as much as a flow of pious bleating.
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271. “Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean.”
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272. King Jaehaerys once told me that madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, he said, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.”
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273. The veins in his arm are turning black.
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274. Aemon Targaryen, Jon thought, a king’s son and a king’s brother and a king who might have been. But he said nothing.
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275. The Horned Lord once said that sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.”
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276.
“We’ll defend the Wall to the last man,” said Cotter Pyke.
“Probably me,” said Dolorous Edd, in a resigned tone.
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277. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground,
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278. Sometimes his headaches got so bad that it even hurt too much to weep. Then all he could do was rest on his bed in a dark room with a damp cloth over his eyes, and curse his luck and the nameless outlaw who had done this to him.
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279. “She don’t speak,” said the big man in the yellow cloak. “You bloody bastards cut her throat too deep for that. But she remembers.”
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280.
“Some men think because they are afraid to do.”
“There is
a difference between fear and caution.”
“Oh, I must pray
that I never see you frightened,
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281. ‘Our towers. But that was another mistake. We underestimated them. Many escaped. Then some mad fashion to free imprisoned beauties took hold of princes, especially the younger ones, who didn’t have much to do and still less to lose. Most of them, fortunately, twisted their necks—’
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282. Coodcoodak, proving how apt his nickname was, suddenly cackled like a very real sitting hen, creating general mirth among the guests, and consternation among the servants who were convinced that a bird, mocking their vigilance, had somehow managed to make its way from the courtyard into the hall.
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283. “Your boat’s not like to sink, I don’t think. Boats only sink when I’m aboard.”
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284. Occasionally one of them started forwards excitedly, as if they had seen something interesting at last, only to fall back looking disappointed.
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285. Harry became aware of the locket against his skin; the thing inside it that sometimes ticked or beat had woken; he could feel it pulsing through the cold gold.
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286.
‘That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was,’ Ron mumbled.
‘Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was,’
said Harry. ‘I’ve been trying to tell you that for years.’
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287. His hands were clutching the nubs of the chair’s arms, so that her first thought was of a sleeping king, refusing to leave his throne.
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288. From the empty part of the house. Except, the more I listened, the less empty it seemed. It felt as though something was forming in the shadows down there, and then creeping closer along the hallway. I’d stare at the doorframe, the whole time waiting for fingers of some kind to wrap slowly around it. For a face to peer in at me. And when it did, I knew my parents would be too far away to reach me in time.
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289. She closed the gate behind her with a gentle clink, and it felt like a key turning: locking her inside a room with something that had once been good but was now soured and rotten, maybe even dangerous. Hannah opened the front door and sensed it, hard as a shove. Go away, the house was saying. You’re not welcome.
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290. It had the opposite instincts to the carrier bag, and kept trying to close itself.
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291. Als jene, die ich um Rat und ihre Meinung befragte, mich berichtigten, dass nicht wenig Hoffnung, sondern gar keine Hoffnung bestünde, nahm ich dann die Erzählung wieder auf, ermutigt durch die Bitten von Lesern, ihnen mehr über Hobbits und ihre Abenteuer zu berichten.
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292. Manche, die das Buch gelesen oder jedenfalls besprochen haben, fanden es langweilig, absurd oder belanglos; und ich habe keinen Grund, mich zu beklagen, denn ich habe ähnliche Ansichten über ihre Arbeiten oder über die Art zu schreiben, die sie offenbar vorziehen.
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293. One thing police work taught you was that however careful someone thought they’d been, there was always something.
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294. You’ve probably read that he was an incorrigible womaniser, which is true, but he loved her and needed her. He was like a lot of men in that regard: always seeking what they can’t have; never happy with what they do – until it’s gone, of course. Wiseman had been given the freedom he’d always hankered after. But it was obvious to me he’d lost something far more important deep down, and was in the middle of realising it.’
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295. In seinen Augen lauerte eine verschmitzte Weisheit. Respektiere alles, legte sie nahe, und nimm nichts zu ernst. Ein Kobold als Hofnarr.
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296. Zu Guru Purnima, an dem Tag, an dem jeder seinen Lehrer ehrt, erhalten wir Süßigkeiten, Sesambällchen, in denen sich eine bescheidene Münze oder ein kostbares Schmuckstück versteckt. Wir öffnen die Bällchen, wenn wir alleine sind, mit den Fingern, wie eine reife Guave-Frucht. Sie erkennen die Vorzüge dieses Brauchs. Die Schüler fühlen sich zu nichts verpflichtet, sie brauchen sich nicht schämen, wenn sie Mangel leiden und wenig abzugeben haben.
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297. Früher gingen die Schüler mit einem Holzscheit zu ihrem Lehrer, als Symbol für ihre Bereitschaft, im Feuer des Wissens zu verbrennen.
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298. “You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night,”
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299. ‘Leave us in peace and don’t talk to us. We be decent thieves, not some politicals. We didn’t try to attack the authorities. We was only stealing.’
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300. The innocent old man leapt away from the bars like a lynx and hid among the criminals.
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301. For LOBELIA SACKVILLE-BAGGINS, as a PRESENT; on a case of silver spoons. Bilbo believed that she had acquired a good many of his spoons, while he was away on his former journey. Lobelia knew that quite well. When she arrived later in the day, she took the point at once, but she also took the spoons.
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302. but his pride has grown with it, and he takes ill any meddling.
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303. He’s trying to mask his sorrow, dejection and disgrace by being witty.’
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304. His eyes, Geralt noticed, were frost-cold and the colour of steel.
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305. The corners of her father’s lips curved upward ever so slightly, giving him a look of vague bemusement. That should not be.
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306. “The flesh … as the flesh dries, the muscles grow taut and pull his lips upward. That is no smile, only a … a drying, that is all.”
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307. Septa Roelle once told her that it was meant to show that they had nothing to hide from the Father. “Can’t the Father see through hair?” Brienne had asked. A stupid thing to say.
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308. She remembered how she’d run her fingertips across the cracked and fading paint, over the green leaves of the tree, and along the path of the falling star.
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309. “Men will always underestimate you,” he said, “and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely.”
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310. An old man he was, with white hair and windburnt cheeks, but he sang of knights and quests and ladies fair,
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311. ‘But that, of course, would only make the evil part of him angrier in the end – unless it could be conquered. Unless it could be cured.’
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312. The Woodmen said that there was some new terror abroad, a ghost that drank blood. It climbed trees to find nests; it crept into holes to find the young; it slipped through windows to find cradles.
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313. ‘Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded,
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314. I’ve never been so far myself; they’re queer folks in Buckland. No, I can’t give no message. Good night to you!’
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315. He had been saying farewell to the beer-barrel in the cellar.
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316. A brief silence follows the name, always, in any civilized gathering.
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317. “Dr. Lecter, I’ll let this come through. But if you don’t return it when I ask you to—if we have to bother everybody and secure you to get it—then I’ll be upset. If you upset me, you’ll have to stay bundled up until I feel better toward you. Meals through the tube, dignity pants changed twice a day—the works. And I’ll hold your mail for a week. Got it?”
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318. There were small scurryings at the sound of her voice, and something inside a piano climbed over a few high notes.
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319. “The position is called ‘lab wretch,’ or some people prefer ‘Igor’—that’s what’s printed on the rubber apron they give you.”
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320.
“Old people gets those a lot,” Lamar said.
“What?”
Crawford said.
“I SAID OLD PEOPLE GETS THOSE A LOT.”
“I heard you fine, I want you to explain it. What about old
people?”
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321.
He came back from the Coke machine with an ice-cold can of soda,
unopened, and offered it to her.
“No, thanks,” Starling
said. “I don’t believe I’ll have one.”
“No, hold it
under your neck there,” Lamar said, “and on that little bump at
the back of your head. Cold’ll make you feel better. It does me.”
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322. It’s the only weakness I ever saw in him—he has to look smart, smarter than anybody. He’s been doing it for years.”
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323. Whip a man and he’ll continue to obey your orders. Stop feeding him and he’ll desert to the enemy. Don’t pay the peasants and they’ll grumble; tax their grain and they’ll storm the castle.
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324. Carts just aren’t sexy, nor are they heroic. Trust me. No one wants your hero riding to the rescue…on a cart.
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325. Flax, wool, or animal and human hair can be spun and turned into hand-woven purses and carryalls.
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326. Perhaps your Victorian hero sets up an anonymous milk delivery for his impoverished love interest. Who needs jewels when she has fresh, from-the-farm milk delivery every day?
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327. On the swarming dark she saw the moth’s wise little face.
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328. There were other sorcerers in the vicinity. In the distance, three orange lightning bolts shot into the sky and away over by the forest a veritable geyser of rainbow-coloured, whirling meteors exploded.
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329. Irgendwann werden ihm die Sprachen ausgehen, dachte ich.
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330. – Du bist ein Narr. Ich bin der einzige, der dir helfen kann, deine Dummheit zu verkleiden. Hörst du, du Narr.
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331. Sie sollten sich die Antwort denken können. Ich bin zu einem Lahiya gegangen. – Er war einverstanden, so eine Vereinbarung zu Papier zu bringen? – Wieso nicht. Es war gang und gäbe. – Wahrlich, wir müssen unser Land reinigen. Diese Mletscha tragen einen Schmutz in unser Land, der uns verdirbt.
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332. – Du warst in sie verliebt, ich hätte es mir denken sollen. Sie hat dir den Kopf verdreht. – Es wäre nicht so schlimm gewesen, wenn er mich nicht ins Vertrauen gezogen hätte. Ich habe es kaum ausgehalten. Er dachte, er zeigt mir seine Wertschätzung, seinen Respekt, wenn er mit mir über sie sprach. Was ihn verwunderte, was ihm an ihr gefiel. Ich konnte ihn nicht stoppen. Alles, was ich hätte sagen können, hätte seinen Verdacht erregt.
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333. Schweigen Sie. Sie reden Unsinn. Sie war tot, sie war schon längst tot. – Was? Woran ist sie gestorben? – Sie sind maßlos, Sie denken, ich würde Ihnen anvertrauen, was ich noch niemandem gesagt habe.
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334. I don’t think many of them like me and I suspect that some of them think I’m a bit of a bastard. They would be correct in their judgment of my character. I have to be a bit of a bastard to run this hotel in the manner it deserves.”
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335. (Who giveth this woman? Her father standing in his best suit which was none too good—he was a traveling salesman for a line of canned goods that even then was going broke—and his tired face, how old he looked, how pale: I do.)
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336. und mit einem sinkenden Gefühl im Magen schlägt er eines der Notizbücher auf – die Schrift ist verschwommen. Nicht überall, ein lesbarer Kern ist erhalten. Wie die Fäulnis, die eine Frucht von außen befällt, ist die Nässe an den Rändern eingedrungen, sie hat den Sinn der oberen und unteren Zeilen verwischt, sie hat die letzten Buchstaben jeder Zeile zerbissen, etwa ein Drittel, und sein Eindruck bestätigt sich bei jedem Notizbuch, das er aufschlägt, ein Drittel seiner Beobachtungen, Nachforschungen, Beschreibungen und Reflexionen ausgelöscht. Einen Teil würde er aus der Erinnerung rekonstruieren können, aber auch in der Erinnerung, das wußte er, verschwimmt die Schrift.
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337. Wenn dir jemand sagt, du brauchst dir keine Sorgen zu machen, fange sofort an, dich zu sorgen – eine Weisheit seiner Mutter.
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338. Had her glasses flown all the way through the living room and into the dining room to land in her mashed potatoes and gravy? the doctor asked with a kind of horrid, grinning sarcasm. Is that what happened, Mark? I have heard of folks who can get a radio station on their gold fillings and I have seen a man get shot between the eyes and live to tell about it, but that is a new one on me.
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339. He stood looking at the Ski-Doo, his breath puffing out in frozen little plumes.
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340. When Ram ran, it was like watching a hunting hound speed after a deer, all hard lean muscles and flowing strength. When Isa ran, it was like watching the deer flee, all easy grace and surprising speed. Kip running was like a milk cow lumbering out to pasture. Still, no one was expecting him.
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341. As if on signal, Kip heard a branch snap. It might have been a deer. Evening was coming on after all. There were lots of deer in the orange groves after— Not thirty paces away, someone cursed. Talking deer?
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342. Her eyes were a horror to behold, the pupil of her left eye was dilated, the right a tight pinprick.
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343. Think about this, Kip: there are a lot of problems that would go away for me if I leave that mask on your face until you’re dead. You might want to think twice before you try to use a man’s conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn’t have one.”
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344. in the absolute dark she could hear the tiny clicks her eyes made when she blinked.
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345. Silence can mock.
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346. you have to threaten him with boredom. That’s all he’s afraid of.
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347. His empty hands hanging palms forward at his sides, he stood at the window looking to the empty east. He did not look for dawn; east was only the way the window faced.
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348. Andere Menschen können einen in die Irre führen [...] und zerstören deine Konzentration mit: »Oh, guck mal, es regnet!«, oder: »Hier gibt es aber eine Menge Bäume.«
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349. Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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350. “Learn about art, Captain,” Thrawn said, his voice almost dreamy. “When you understand a species’ art, you understand that species.”
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351. “After four years of watching political infighting, you learn the occasional value of subtlety.
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352.
“No, but that’s not really the point of such a show,” Karrde
said. “The point is to score domestic political gains by bustling
around, presenting a comforting display of force, and otherwise
convincing the locals that something like this can never happen
again.”
“And promising to help clean up the wreckage,”
Lachton put in.
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353. She rolled him over to the window so the sun fell on him for the first time in weeks, and it seemed to him he could feel his pasty-white skin, dotted here and there with minor bedsores, murmur its pleasure and thanks.
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354. nor to half-fill a wastebasket with random jottings or half-pages which ended with lines like ‘Misery turned to him, eyes shining, lips murmuring the magic words Oh you numb shithead THIS ISN’T WORKING AT ALL!!!’
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355. His crown was all you ever wanted.
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356. Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.”
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357. Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.”
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358. Heart thumping, she went to the open ballroom doors and looked in. It was empty and silent, the only sound that curious subaural echo that seems to linger in all large rooms, from the largest cathedral to the smallest hometown bingo parlor.
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359. Even when he was younger and stronger, Doran Martell had been a cautious man much given to silences and secrets.
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360. On the day they wed, Nymeria fired her ships, so her people would understand that there could be no going back.
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361. “No. Gods forbid they glimpse me near the high seat of the Arryns, they might think that I mean to sit in it. Cheeks born so low as mine must never aspire to such lofty cushions.”
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362. Now he had to go back to being himself, and that was hard – it got harder to do that every year. It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.
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363. The smile was ghastly, horrible. It was like watching a corpse smile.
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364. Please understand that, Marty. I’m going but I’ll be coming back.’ Oh but that felt like a lie.
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365. The laugh sounded like something that really wanted to be a howl of pain.
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366. The article in the News had called it a falling accident, and it was true that Branson Buddinger had taken a fall. What the News neglected to mention was that he fell from a stool in his closet and he had a noose around his neck at the time.
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367.
You’ve got your work cut out for you, I think. Don’t bother with
me. I’m –’ He offers her a ghastly smile, a smile that makes
her think of scarecrows flapping in dead November fields. ‘I’m
fine and well.’
‘You looked’ (dead) ‘a little under
the weather.’
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368. THE FABULOUS GUM-STICK. When he talked about it you could tell he thought about it like that, in capital letters (and maybe neon, as well).
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369. The driver was shaking his fist at Bill and shouting something. Bill doubted it was happy birthday.
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370. All the thoughts and memories were catching up – hi Bill, gee, we almost lost sight of you for awhile there, but here we are – rejoining him, climbing up his shirt and jumping into his ear and whooshing into his brain like little kids going
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371. Stan stood close by Richie with one hand on Richie’s arm, ready to squeeze – hard – if Richie should show the slightest sign of having anything to say other than thank you very much.
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372. She smiled. It was a kind of smile Richie had never seen before. It was wise, cynical, and sad all at the same time. He recoiled a little from its unknowing power, as he had recoiled from the picture of downtown in Georgie‘s album when it had begun to move.
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373. And if the Bullseye doesn’t work, I’ll throw some of my sneezing powder at it. And if it keeps on coming after that we’ll just call time and say, “Hey now, hold on. This ain’t getting it, Mr Monster. Look, I got to read up on it at the library. I’ll be back. Pawdon me.” Is that what you’re going to say, Big Bill?’
IT by Stephen King
374
374. It would be drawing-down-dark out where he was, the world going purple with early winter shadows, the sky the color of ashes in the east and embers in the west.
IT by Stephen King
375
375. Like Ben Hanscom (although Sonia did not know this), Eddie was the sort of boy who would look quickly into a face, as if to test the emotional weather brewing there, and glance just as quickly away.
IT by Stephen King
376
376. ‘I don’t deny it, but I’ll never believe you are sleeping again, whether you snore or not. I shall kick you hard to make sure.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
377
377. ‘There’s earth under his old feet, and clay on his fingers; wisdom in his bones, and both his eyes are open,’ said Tom.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
378
378. You know, Ciri, you can die from having your head cut off.’
Sword of Destiny by A.Sapkowski
379
379. The little girl knelt by the little boy, hugged him and wiped away his tears, smudging dust and dirt over his face.
Sword of Destiny by A.Sapkowski
380
380. He was afraid he would be forced to listen to a long monologue. The marshal knew that the man standing at the window considered his monologues a conversation, and viewed conversation as a privilege and proof of trust. He knew this, but still didn’t like listening to the monologues.
Blood of Elves by A. Sapkowski
381
381. As a royal messenger he was absolute entitled to a mount. The royal decrees were explicit – a messenger had the right to demand a fresh horse in every town, village, inn or farmyard – and woe betide anyone who refused.
Time of Contempt by A. Sapkowski
382
382. ‘I know him. It can’t be verse, because he’s not cursing, mumbling or counting the syllables on his fingers. He’s writing in silence, so it must be prose.’
The Tower of the Swallow by A. Sapkowski
383
383.
He advertised them with the slogan “Defend yourself”. His
handbill declared “Banditry and violence are rampant among us. The
law is powerless and inept. Defend yourself! Don’t leave home
without a handy Gabriel crossbow. A Gabriel is your guardian, a
Gabriel will protect you and your dear ones from bandits.”
Sales
were phenomenal. Soon every bandit packed a Gabriel during robberies.
The Tower of the Swallow by A. Sapkowski
384
384. As long as there was a possibility that a kidnapping had been committed with a view to financial gain, the police conducted its investigation with utmost secrecy. But as soon as that possibility was ruled out, they usually launched a public investigation and announced it to the media. That way they could obtain more information faster.
Dark Water by Koji Suzuki
385
385.
Ser Ilyn opened his mouth and made a clacking sound.
A
laugh, Jaime realized. Something twisted in his gut.
A Feast for Crows by GRRM
386
386.
He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway.”
“Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.”
A Dance with Dragons by GRRM
387
387. There was trouble away in the South, and it seemed that the Men who had come up the Greenway were on the move, looking for lands where they could find some peace.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
388
388. The thoughts of Dangerous Beans worked their ways into other people’s heads without them noticing.
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
389
389. ‘It’s “them kids”, not “those kids”. Get it right. How many times have I told you? Rule 27 of the Guild: sound stupid. People get suspicious of rat-catchers that talk too good.’
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
390
390. They go lurking around in the distant wildernesses for ages, handing down the secret sword and birthmark and so forth from generation to generation. Then just when the old kingdom needs them, they turn up and turf out any usurpers that happen to be around.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
391
391. It was a five hundred mile journey and, surprisingly, quite uneventful. 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.’
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
392
392. Being a gang leader is not a job with long-term prospects. But in every gang there is a pale youth who’s allowed to stay because he’s the one who comes up with all the clever ideas, usually to do with old women and unlocked shops; this was Wonse’s natural place in the order of things.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
393
393. A large part of his life consisted of arranging matters so that this state of affairs continued.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
394
394. What he couldn’t do with fifty thousand dollars . . . Vimes thought about this for a while and then thought of the things he could do with fifty thousand dollars. There were so many more of them, for a start.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
395
395. ‘Well,’ he said. ‘I mean, of course. Yes. No fears about that. Behind you one hundred and ten percent—’ He’s going to say only, thought the Supreme Grand Master. ‘—only—’ Ah. ‘—we, that
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
396
396. On the other hand, how does the ability to slay dragons fit you for kingship in this day and age?
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
397
397. Lord Vetinari had been locked up in his own dungeons. He hadn’t put up much fight, apparently. Just smiled at everyone and went quietly.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
398
398. But the Librarian had wrestled with many a terrifying text in some of the worst books ever bound, words that tried to read you as you read them, words that writhed on the page.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
399
399. ‘From what?’ said Nobby. ‘We’ve never had an enemy we couldn’t bribe or corrupt.’
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
400
400. ‘Never build a dungeon you wouldn’t be happy to spend the night in yourself,’ said the Patrician, laying out the food on the cloth. ‘The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.’
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
401
401. He wondered what it was like in the Patrician’s mind. All cold and shiny, he thought, all blued steel and icicles and little wheels clicking along like a huge clock. The kind of mind that would carefully consider its own downfall and turn it to advantage.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
402
402.
‘You have the right to remain silent. You have the right not to be
summarily thrown into a piranha tank. You have the right to trial by
ordeal. You have the—’
‘This is madness,’ said the
Patrician calmly.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
403
403. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no. I’m sorry if this offends you,’ he added, patting the captain’s shoulder, ‘but you fellows really need us.’
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
404
404. But the trouble is that it’s the only thing you’re good at. One day it’s the ringing of the bells and the casting down of the evil tyrant, and the next it’s everyone sitting around complaining that ever since the tyrant was overthrown no-one’s been taking out the trash. Because the bad people know how to plan. It’s part of the specification, you might say. Every evil tyrant has a plan to rule the world. The good people don’t seem to have the knack.’
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
405
405. That’s where they went, then. Into our imaginations. And when we call them back we shape them, like squeezing dough into pastry shapes. Only you don’t get gingerbread men, you get what you are. Your own darkness, given shape . . .
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
406
406. Anyway, what was there to be afraid of? He’d stared into the jaws of death three times; four, if you included telling Lord Vetinari to shut up.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
407
407. There seemed to be a special kind of poverty that only the very, very rich could possibly afford... That was how you got to be a power in the land, he thought. You never cared a toss about whatever anyone else thought and you were never, ever, uncertain about anything.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
408
408. Except, except, except maybe your real king of, like, days of yore, he would have a sword that didn’t sparkle one bit but was bloody efficient at cutting things. Just a thought.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
409
409.
‘Why is it his lucky day?’ said Angua. ‘He was caught, wasn’t
he?’
‘Yes. By us. Thieves’ Guild didn’t get him first.
They aren’t so kind as us.’
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
410
410. The King then chose men that were unhurt and had swift horses, and he sent them forth with tidings of the victory into every vale of the Mark; and they bore his summons also, bidding all men, young and old, to come in haste to Edoras.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
411
411. But the men of Dunland were set apart in a mound below the Dike.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
412
412. began to take in those parts of the city where you didn’t light a candle because that was wasting good food.
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
413
413.
‘I thought dwarfs didn’t believe in devils and demons and stuff
like that.’
‘That’s true, but … we’re not sure if
they know.’
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
414
414. May I make you some tea? I’m afraid I don’t see many people these days, apart from the man who oils the hinges.’
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
415
415. Clowns and fools weren’t encouraged to live the soft life. Humour was a serious business.
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
416
416. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
417
417. ‘Existential uncertainty,’ Angua said. ‘He doesn’t know whether he exists or not. It’s cruel, I know, but it’s the only thing we’ve found that works against bogeymen. Blue fluffy blanket, for preference.’
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
418
418. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
419
419. On the ceiling rats danced in a circle, their tails intertwining at the centre.
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
420
420.
‘You have the mind of a true policeman, Vimes.’
‘Thank
you, sir.’
‘Really? Was it a compliment?’
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
421
421. Lord Vetinari looked attentive, because he’d always found that listening keenly to people tended to put them off. And at meetings like this, when he was advised by the leaders of the city, he listened with great care because what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That’s where the things were that they hoped he didn’t know and didn’t want him to find out.
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
422
422. ‘Strange as it may seem, Sir Samuel, I am occasionally capable of governing this city for minutes at a time without seeking your advice and guidance.’
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
423
423.
‘Here, you’re a zombie!’
‘That’s right, kick a man
when he’s dead,’ said Constable Shoe sharply.
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
424
424. This Klatchian had intelligent eyes, too. Disconcertingly intelligent. You looked into them and several layers of person looked back at you.
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
425
425. There are children in your land who, out of the twisted threads of story, could pick the answer to your question. You have seen Ents, O King, Ents out of Fangorn Forest, which in your tongue you call the Entwood. Did you think that the name was given only in idle fancy?
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
426
426. It sounded like someone running but also occasionally pausing to hop sideways on one leg. Then there was a pause, such as might be made by someone adjusting their clothing and getting their breath back.
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
427
427. Sergeant Colon took his grimy badge out of his pocket and was a little disappointed that it didn’t make a defiant tinkle when he threw it on the table but instead bounced and smashed the water jug.
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
428
428. In Vimes’s eyes Rust recognized the fiery gleam of burning boats.
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
429
429. Did you see who carved out the valley? Would you recognize that glacier if you saw it again?’
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
430
430. Lord Vetinari paused. He found it difficult to talk to Frederick Colon. He dealt on a daily basis with people who treated conversation as a complex game, and with Colon he had to keep on adjusting his mind in case he overshot.
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
431
431. But if you’ll be advised by me, a lot of diplomacy lies in appearing to be a lot more stupid than you are.
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
432
432. The way the thing was guarded was a joke. Nobby and Colon could have done it better. Much better, he corrected himself, because they had devious little minds and that was what made them coppers. The guards of the Scone were honourable dwarfs, the last people you wanted to entrust with anything. You wanted sneaky people for a job like this.
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
433
433. And very quietly, smiling, the King had turned the customs of the dwarfs upside down. And so gently, too, that they’d spend years arguing about it …
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
434
434. On the other hand … the world wasn’t moved by heroes or villains or even by policemen. It might as well be moved by symbols. All he knew was that you couldn’t hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that’d make the world, in a small way, a better place.
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
435
435.
‘What? Those loony monks in the funny foreign building between the
pawnbrokers and the shonky shop? The ones who go dancing round the
street banging drums and shouting?’
‘Well done, Mister
Vimes. It’s funny how secretly you can move when you’re a loony
monk dancing through the streets banging a drum.’
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
436
436. ‘When I die,’ said Lawn, inspecting the patient, ‘I’m going to instruct them to put a bell on my tombstone, just so’s I can have the pleasure of not getting up when people ring.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
437
437. ‘In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?’
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
438
438. Never, ever threaten anyone with your sword unless you really mean it, because if he calls your bluff you suddenly don’t have many choices and they’re all the wrong ones.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
439
439. Someone had even hung up the swordsmanship targets, which would certainly be helpful if the watchmen were faced with an enemy who was armless and tied to a pole.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
440
440. ‘They’re even putting old grannies up on the barricades, shouting down to the lads. Poor Sergeant Franklin, sir, his granny saw him and said that if he didn’t turn it up she’d tell everyone what he did when he was eleven, sir.’
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
441
441. It was hard for a visitor to hang on when their replacement was in the room.
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
442
442. He has his agents in our city, just as I have in his.
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
443
443. So I will do him the courtesy of telling him formally what he will in any case know. That is called politics, Vimes. It is a thing we try to do in the government.’
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
444
444. It had not yet progressed to: what am I going to do about this? Besides, where was the cow? There were cows down here?
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
445
445. A king on a throne as wobbly as a rocking-horse. And he’s not nice. It’s not a job where the nice last long.
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
446
446. ‘That would be right for the time. Whoever is speaking has just said: “Art thys thyng workyng?”’
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
447
447. Your Master Rider of course will turn up his elegant nose at this and use his weight and the toning of his legs and torso—in short, he’ll stop and turn with his seat, which in equestrian terms refers to the rider’s body from the neck to the knees. Much prettier, much more invisible, much harder to learn and train. But nice if you can use it.
Writing Horses by Judith Tarr
448
448. These were supposedly designed as maneuvers in war, though there is a school of thought that says nobody is going to waste ten years of training by taking said highly trained horse out on a battlefield to get killed.
Writing Horses by Judith Tarr
449
449. What did he know about compound interest, eh? He’d been classically educated. And then they remembered his education had been at the Assassins’ Guild School, and stopped smiling.
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
450
450. People looking at you as though you were less than the dust beneath their feet was one thing, but it was strangely unpleasant when even the dust did that too.
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
451
451. ‘No, what got people worried was finding letters in the sorting tray a year before they were due to be written.’
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
452
452. Why is this man ruling just one city? he thought. Why isn’t he ruling the world? Is this how he treats other people? It’s like being a puppet. The difference is, he arranges for you to pull your own strings.
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
453
453. Mr Lipwig, there are times when we humble practitioners of the craft of medicine have to stand aside in astonishment. Quite a long way aside, in the case of Mr Groat, and preferably behind a tree.
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
454
454. ‘Yes. It makes me so noticeable that no one will suspect I’m trying not to be noticed, so they won’t bother to notice me.’
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
455
455. Moist looked into a pair of milky blue eyes that were as innocent as a child’s, particularly a child who is trying hard to look innocent.
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
456
456. It wasn’t a very loud word, but it had an effect rather like that of a drop of black ink in a glass of clear water. The word spread out in coils and tendrils, getting everywhere. It strangled the noise.
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
457
457.
‘They’d listen to a —ing dead man?’ said Mr Tulip.
‘I
don’t see why not. You are,’ said the zombie.
The Truth by Terry Pratchett
458
458. William felt the distinct unease of a well-educated man who has to confront the fact that the illiterate man watching him could probably out-think him three times over.
The Truth by Terry Pratchett
459
459.
And he did lay down his life for us!’
‘Yes, but then he
picked it up again!’
The Truth by Terry Pratchett
460
460. The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork sat back on his austere chair with the sudden bright smile of a very busy person at the end of a crowded day who’s suddenly found in his schedule a reminder saying: 7.00-7.05, Be Cheerful and Relaxed and a People Person.
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
461
461. Vimes’ meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet nagging suspicion that he’d only just escaped with his life.
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
462
462. But his second-in-command – is he a good man too? You’d better hope so. Because he’s the supreme ruler, too, in the name of the king. And the rest of the court … they’ve got to be good men. Because if just one of them’s a bad man the result is bribery and patronage.’
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
463
463.
‘Dismantling a person is sometimes necessary,’ said Lord
Vetinari.
‘This, of course, is a point of view,’ said
Leonard da Quirm politely.
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
464
464. All of these labyrinths, lying at incredible depth, were so mysterious and, it seemed, completely useless for the functioning of the metro. It was hard to believe, despite the assurances of various persons of authority on the matter, that all of this was built by ordinary metro-builders.
Metro 2033 by Dimitry Glokhovsky
465
465. ‘Night’ made sense because the majority of inhabitants at the station were more comfortable with the idea of everyone sleeping at the same time,
Metro 2033 by Dimitry Glokhovsky
466
466. People kept on talking about the true king of Ankh-Morpork, but history taught a cruel lesson. It said – often in words of blood – that the true king was the one who got crowned.
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
467
467. There was no use denying it. Somehow, people could tell if you were a dwarf just by looking at you.
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
468
468. Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
469
469. ‘I’m putting my best man on that,’ said Vimes. ‘Trustworthy, reliable, knows the ins and outs of this place like the back of his hand. I’m handling it, in other words.’
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
470
470. ‘Dumbly obeying orders, sir. You know … someone shouts at it “Go and make teapots”, so it does. Can’t be blamed for obeying orders, sir. No one told them how many. No one wants them to think, so they get their own back by not thinking.’
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
471
471. ‘You do know his last secretary tried to kill him?’
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
472
472. If the poor man took any longer he’d have to start giving him hints.
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
473
473. He might turn out to be one of them inconvenient kings from long ago who wanders around talking to the common people—”’
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
474
474. Never take the lot and run. Take a little and walk. Dress neat. That’s my motto. Dress neat and walk away slowly. Never run.
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
475
475.
‘You can’t give her that!’ she screamed. ‘It’s not safe!’
It‘s a sword,
said the Hogfather. They‘re
not meant to be safe.
‘She’s a child!’ shouted
Crumley.
It‘s
educational.
‘What if she cuts herself?’
That
will be an important lesson.
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
476
476. ‘They come out of his ears and fly around his head making tweeting noises.’
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
477
477. ‘Charity ain’t giving people what you wants to give, it’s giving people what they need to get.’
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
478
478.
‘Sir?’ said the head waiter.
‘I started off as a chef,’
said the manager, picking up a knife. ‘How do you think I was able
to afford this place? I know how it’s done. Get the look and the
sauce right and you’re three-quarters there.’
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
479
479. Er unterhielt sich gerne mit ihm. Sein Blick auf die Dinge war so frisch, als sei die Schöpfung gerade erst vollzogen worden. Aber eine Schwäche hatte dieser junge Mann, eine fatale Schwäche. Er beließ es nicht dabei, die Fremde zu beobachten. Er wollte an ihr teilnehmen. Er war ihr verfallen, so sehr, daß er sie sogar bewahren wollte in ihrem zurückgebliebenen Zustand.
Der Weltensammler by Iljia Trojanow
480
480. Bis zu einer Moschee, neben der sich ein ummauertes Grabmal befand. Ein verwinkelter Zugang. Eine Dichte an Menschen und Erregung. Er vernahm ein Lied, es zog ihn hinein, ein Lied, das ihn bewegte, ein Lied, das an dem Putz einer verborgenen Kammer seines Wesens kratzte.
Der Weltensammler by Iljia Trojanow
481
481. But then over time the gold will turn to ashes.
Writing Horses by Judith Tarr
482
482. In der Nacht von Shiva, in der vorhergehenden Nacht und an dem Tag zuvor, er gehörte so sehr dazu, ihn reizte die Vorstellung, für den Rest seines Lebens Teil dieser Familie, dieses Ortes, dieser Rituale zu sein. Er erschrak über diese Lust. Betörend im ersten Augenblick, bedrohlich, sobald er in ihr verweilte.
Der Weltensammler by Iljia Trojanow
483
483. Als Burton zu Hause in den Spiegel blickte, erkannte er sich selbst nicht wieder. Nicht wegen irgendeiner äußeren Veränderung, sondern weil er sich verwandelt fühlte.
Der Weltensammler by Iljia Trojanow
484
484. Hunting was his love. He made it a practice never to let a day go by without killing something.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
485
485.
“You’re right,” the Turk agreed, staring back. “He isn’t
gaining on us. He’s just getting closer, that’s all.”
“It
is the angle we’re looking from and nothing more,” said the
Sicilian.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
486
486. The man in black did neither; he simply quick-stepped, wrenched his body erect, continued fighting.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
487
487. With most people, they scream and holler and jump around. With Vizzini, it was different: he got very very quiet, and his voice sounded like it came from a dead throat. And his eyes turned to fire.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
488
488. The wrong people die, some of them, and the reason is this; life is not fair.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
489
489. Besides, if you wanted something done right, you did it yourself.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
490
490. “Anyway,” said the don, “not my field, I’m a molecular biologist. Anyone else want to have a look?”
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
491
491. “Oh, not again, you old fool,” muttered the aged archaeologist Cawley, sitting back and putting his hands over his ears.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
492
492. As he did so he nearly ran into someone lugging a body into a field.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
493
493. She had been waiting patiently – or at least with the appearance of patience – in the wings all this time, being the devoted wife, the doting but strict mother. Now someone had taken her – to switch metaphors for a moment – out of her scabbard and everyone was running for cover.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
494
494. He had climbed it in pursuit of some wild fantastic dream and then had got stuck and had to stay there till the morning.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
495
495.
“By writing down what the answer is!” exclaimed Dirk. “And here
it is!” He slapped the piece of paper triumphantly and sat back
with a satisfied smile. [...]
“What language,” he said in a
low, dark voice, “is this written in?”
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
496
496. man wird den Nachhall der Schreie nicht los, und schon gar nicht den des Schweigens.
No & Ich by Delphine de Vigan
497
497. Wer sich ständig deines Vertrauens vergewissert, wird es als Erster missbrauchen.
No & Ich by Delphine de Vigan
498
498. Wenn ich sehr zornig bin, führe ich Selbstgespräche, und das tat ich, als ich im Bett war, mindestens eine Stunde lang zählte ich meine sämtlichen Leiden und Schmerzen auf, das ist sehr erleichternd, der Trick funktioniert noch besser, wenn man sich vor einen Spiegel stellt und ein bisschen dicker aufträgt, so als ob man jemanden beschimpfen würde, aber dazu war ich zu müde.
No & Ich by Delphine de Vigan
499
499. »Ich weiß nicht, Krümel. Ich glaube nicht. Ich glaube, es ist immer komplizierter, als man denkt.«
No & Ich by Delphine de Vigan
500
500. therefore probably counted as a room since most people don’t like to sit in cupboards.
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
501
501. One of the travellers, a squint-eyed ill-favoured fellow, was foretelling that more and more people would be coming north in the near future. ‘If room isn’t found for them, they’ll find it for themselves. They’ve a right to live, same as other folk,’ he said loudly. The local inhabitants did not look pleased at the prospect.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
502
502. Seit seiner Kindheit, als er in einen Brunnenschacht gestürzt war und eine Nacht hilflos darin verbringen musste, litt er unter einer beinahe lähmenden Angst vor beengten, geschlossenen Räumen.
Das verlorene Symbol by Dan Brown
503
503. So wie die frühen Alchimisten vergeblich versucht hatten, Blei in Gold zu verwandeln, ohne zu erkennen, dass Blei-zu-Gold nur eine Metapher dafür war, das wahre Potenzial des Menschen zu erschließen – einen dumpfen, unwissenden Geist zur Erleuchtung zu führen.
Das verlorene Symbol by Dan Brown
504
504. Er konnte die Worte kaum verstehen, doch dem Tonfall war zu entnehmen, dass sie das tätowierte Ungeheuer anflehte, ihn freizulassen.
Das verlorene Symbol by Dan Brown
505
505. The news that they have nothing to fear is guaranteed to strike terror into the hearts of innocents everywhere.
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
506
506. “A man is a wolf to other men”! How stupid. Do you think they mean that men are shy and retiring and loyal and kill only to eat? Of course not!
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
507
507. But Sybil had been brought up properly; if you can’t find something nice to say about the food, find something else to be nice about.
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
508
508. If your husband is alive, we can soon do something about it.
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
509
509. You see, sire, if people see that something’s gone, and then you turn up with something that looks like it, they’ll think “This must be it, it must be, because it isn’t where we thought it was.”
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
510
510. Wolfgang looked up at him, one eye glowing yellow. The other was a mess.
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
511
511. Havelock has always had an instinct for people.
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
512
512. You can’t run people’s lives from beyond the grav— well, you can, sir, no problem there, but she can’t just—’
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
513
513. Moist was impressed. Stick and carrot. Vetinari just used stick, or hit you over the head with the carrot.
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
514
514. Yep, guild-school trained, then. Lots of upper-class kids went there for the education but didn’t do the Black Syllabus. He probably had a note from his mother saying he was excused stabbing.
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
515
515.
‘I never said—’
‘I know exactly what you never
said. You refrained from saying it very loudly.’
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
516
516. And it was an unmemorable suit for an unmemorable man, with the additional advantage, unlike black, of not showing up in the dark.
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
517
517. The ring did look impressive, especially against the pale blue of his finger.
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
518
518. Ha, I’d be a damn fool to design a spell to work on myself, eh?
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
519
519.
I won’t blame him when he decides to take an honourable and
well-earned retirement.’
‘Yes, sir. When would you like him
to decide that, sir?’ said Drumknott.
‘No rush,’ said
Vetinari. ‘No rush.’
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
520
520. Criminals in fiction often seem only to have stolen, kidnapped, murdered, and committed unspeakable sex acts with the child’s beloved pet monkey because they are so looking forward to telling someone all about it.
How not to write a Novel by Howard Mittelmark
521
521. He drank heavily and kept stealing glances at the singer.
A Feast for Crows by GRRM
522
522. “It was a pot of molten gold. We princes make our careful plans and the gods smash them all awry.”
A Feast for Crows by GRRM
523
523. “You’re mistaken. I never fall.”
A Feast for Crows by GRRM
524
524. Her grandmother had been some sort of half-mad witch woman from the east, he seemed to recall.
A Feast for Crows by GRRM
525
525. ‘Well, I saw what I saw, and I saw what I didn’t,’ said Mugwort obstinately.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
526
526. ‘With your leave, Mr. Frodo, I’d say no! This Strider here, he warns and he says take care; and I say yes to that, and let’s begin with him. He comes out of the Wild, and I never heard no good of such folk. He knows something, that’s plain, and more than I like; but it’s no reason why we should let him go leading us out into some dark place far from help, as he puts it.’
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
527
527. If only she wouldn’t look at me, he thought. I can’t bear her gaze.
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
528
528. ‘No. A seething mass of horses, people and weapons. Soldiers were fighting and yelling. Someone, probably a bit dim, was wailing, “Eagles! Eagles!”’
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
529
529.
[On the difference between a basilisk and a cockatrice]
‘Ugh
. . . And which one, do tell, can be despatched with the help of a
looking glass?’
‘Either of them. If you whack it over the
head.’
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
530
530. The dream that the Witcher is dreaming, I humbly submit with respect, is an enchanting and beautiful one. But every dream, if dreamed too long, turns into a nightmare. And we awake from such dreams screaming.’
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
531
531. The Black Cloaks are also looking at the sky and also see the comet. Why, then, should we not assume that it foretells their defeat and not ours? That their corpses will be piled up?’
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
532
532. And that one told the following anecdote when he was drunk: “What’s a spear? It’s a nobleman’s weapon, a stick with a poor man on each end.”
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
533
533. ‘In the birch copse,’ he said. ‘Next to the other ones.’
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
534
534. Where does that pain come from? thought Constable Jan Natalis. What hurts so much? Aha. My clenched fists.
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
535
535.
There’s no room here for any sentimental connections . . .’
At
that moment Jarre – with excellent timing – fainted dramatically
and fell down on the dirt floor. The halfling snorted.
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
536
536. Seemed a waste of time to send three men out for this, but these posh types liked everything done yesterday.
Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley
537
537. “Yes. Some of the men spend so much time in deep-sea diving suits they’re beginning to feel like part of them.” Ryan smiled to himself.
Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley
538
538. Three people died from bad hooch, and two went blind.
Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley
539
539. Picking at the remains of his sea bass with the elegant sterling fork, Andrew Ryan reminded himself to keep smiling. He didn’t much feel like it, but he was hosting this meal at the Kashmir and felt an obligation to keep up appearances.
Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley
540
540. “Suchong is so sorry,” Dr. Suchong said, not sounding sorry as he wound a bandage tightly around the wound.
Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley
541
541.
He jumped a bit, startled by Suchong’s voice. Turning to the
scientist as he bustled up from the other direction.
“Christ,
Suchong, you don’t need to sneak up on people like that.”
“Suchong is sorry.”
“The hell you are. Listen—
Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley
542
542.
He changed frequencies and spoke to another team. “This is the
chief. You ready up there?”
“Ready to hit Futuristics…”
“Goddamnit, don’t say that name on the radio,
just—never mind.
Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley
543
543. He saw the spider splicer jerk and fall with machine-gun bullets, blood splashing against the wall as a fireball went into a spiral, seeming to lose control of its direction when the spider splicer died. It veered crazily above him and then down again and hissed itself out in the water.
Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley
544
544. Scientists were working on machines that could raise man from the dead, if he hadn’t been dead long, and restore him to life.
Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley
545
545. Ministers of old had used them to show the will of the gods with the odd little miracle – feathers fluttering down, or smoke rising behind the statues. Once blood had been dripped on Gettland’s reluctant warriors as the king called for war.
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
546
546. He might have read that the Shends were peaceable enough but these ones did not look as if they had read the same books he had.
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
547
547. Not made from mortared stone but smooth, and hard, without joint or edge as though it had been moulded more than built. From its crumbling top rods of rusted metal sprouted, unruly as an idiot’s hair.
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
548
548. An example: I’d like to gouge out at least one of your eyes as revenge for Thanedd, but I can’t, because I’m afraid you wouldn’t survive it.’
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
549
549.
The old minister gazed sternly at them from her place beside the
Black Chair. ‘I did. And who deserves it.’
‘I believe she
means we don’t,’ said Gorm.
Half the World by Joe Abercrombie
550
550. ‘The law is more Mother Sea than Father Earth, always shifting. The law is a mummer’s puppet, Brand, it says what I say it says.’
Half the World by Joe Abercrombie
551
551. Brand winced as though the memory was far from pleasant. ‘The ground killed him. I just made the introduction.’
Half the World by Joe Abercrombie
552
552. ‘Men prefer to sing of the making of wounds, fools that they are.’ Her eyes were blue slits as she stared into Yarvi’s. ‘And I fear you stitch one wound so you can carve a deeper. But I gave my word, and will do what I can.’
Half the World by Joe Abercrombie
553
553. ‘Once my minister’s potions have worked their magic and I am past this illness. I swear those dung-tasting brews only make me weaker.’
Half the World by Joe Abercrombie
554
554. Probst musste dann in der Haft den Text aus den zerrissenen Papierfetzen rekonstruieren.
„Es lebe die Freiheit!“: Die Geschichte der Weißen Rose und ihrer Mitglieder in Dokumenten und Berichten by Ulrich Chaussy
555
555. Ausfluss einer machtpolitisch aktiven Gruppe; dazu ist ihre Sprache zu abstrakt; sie will (und kann) in breiteren Kreisen der Soldaten oder Arbeiter keinen Widerhall finden.
„Es lebe die Freiheit!“: Die Geschichte der Weißen Rose und ihrer Mitglieder in Dokumenten und Berichten by Ulrich Chaussy
556
556. Die wohl wirksamste Tarnung der Aktivisten der Weißen Rose war gar keine angelegte Maske, sondern die Normalität ihres Lebenswandels. Sie lernten und studierten, sie besuchten Konzerte,
„Es lebe die Freiheit!“: Die Geschichte der Weißen Rose und ihrer Mitglieder in Dokumenten und Berichten by Ulrich Chaussy
557
557. ‘Long live His Holiness!’ yelled several voices paid to do so.
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
558
558. ‘I won’t behead him,’ the executioner declared gloomily, getting up from his knees. ‘He must forgive me, otherwise there’s nothing doing.’
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
559
559. At noon the next day they were at the Slopes, outside Riedbrune. Peace and order reigned all around. The people were sanguine and helpful. It felt safe. Gibbets, heavy with hanging corpses, stood everywhere. They steered clear of the town, heading towards Dol Angra.
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
560
560. ‘And if it depended on me,’ said a non-commissioned officer with a grey moustache in a slow, drawling voice, looking at his commander with a gaze strangely devoid of respect, ‘I’d leave them in peace on their farms. I wouldn’t drive good farmers from the land. I’d be glad that agriculture was prospering. That there’s something to eat.’
The Lady of the Lake by A. Sapkowski
561
561. Vimes felt, in an odd way, that he ought to support the lord of the city. ‘He’s got a little dog that he’s very fond of,’ he said helpfully.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
562
562. It isn’t nice to pray for something you want for yourself, according to my upbringing, and God expects you to help yourself most of the time.
The Healer‘s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
563
563. At the same time, in the back of my mind an accusing voice wondered if I hadn’t overdosed Tran while entertaining some adolescent subconscious desire to “show them”—Chalmers and Cindy Lou—what happened when they didn’t listen to me. The idea scared the hell out of me, and I shoved it away.
The Healer‘s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
564
564. On the other hand, it was normal enough for anyone to be angry and confused on awakening from a head injury to find his legs missing.
The Healer‘s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
565
565. It was less funny to lie alone listening to the shrieking rockets, the mortars crumping like God stomping around out there thoroughly pissed off.
The Healer‘s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
566
566. Soft-tissue injuries were often more painful than broken bones—and healed more slowly.
The Healer‘s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
567
567.
“Do you think a wide angle and a telescopic will be enough lenses?”
“That’ll feed two families after the kids steal them from
you, and the camera will probably feed half the village, so—”
The Healer‘s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
568
568. “No, ma’am. No shiny brass in the field. Sun catches on it and announces your arrival to the enemy.
The Healer‘s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
569
569. The place looks like one big greenhouse, crammed with angel-wing begonias, spider plants, ferns, mother-in-law’s-tongues, all kinds of vines and ivies and flowers, most of which look as if they want to eat you. Seriously, though, it’s very beautiful, if in bad need of a good pruning, and you’d enjoy the bird-watching and identifying all the kinds of spiders and lizards.
The Healer‘s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
570
570. William’s face loomed above me, his forearm pinning me by the throat to the bank. He wore a strange expression not of hatred or anger so much as concentration.
The Healer‘s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
571
571.
Do you still wish to see magic, Koll?”
“No?”
But it
often seemed people loved to ask him questions but hadn’t much
interest in his answers.
Half a War by Joe Abercrombie
572
572. The breeze fumbled across the grass.
Half a War by Joe Abercrombie
573
573. “The passing of a fine enemy through the Last Door is as great a sorrow as the passing of a fine friend. Uthil was both to me.”
Half a War by Joe Abercrombie
574
574. “If that chain around his neck should have taught him anything,” murmured Laithlin, “it is that there are always more enemies.”
Half a War by Joe Abercrombie
575
575. Since Yol actually threw the thing, my ability to imagine broke down for a moment. The bar split into two. Ivy caught one, sidestepping the other—the real one—which hit the wall and bounced to the floor.
Legion: Skin-deep by Brandon Sanderson
576
576. Your parents will be killed, and you will decide to fight against injustice.
Legion: Skin-deep by Brandon Sanderson
577
577. That plume was placed by another trapper to catch someone who does not deserve to be here, someone who thought to find an easy prize. You cannot be that person. Never move without asking yourself, is this too easy?”
Sixth of the Dusk by Brandon Sanderson
578
578. ‘Healthy,’ said Glokta, forcing down a mouthful of sweet mush and spooning up another, ‘delicious,’ choking down some more, ‘and here’s the real clincher,’ he gagged slightly on the next swallow, ‘no chewing required.’ He shoved the mostly full bowl away and tossed the spoon after
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
579
579. you mean to kill, you’re better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that’s the last thing you want.
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
580
580. The butcher was walking slowly toward them, wiping his hands on a cloth.
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
581
581.
this session is to decide who is worthy of his Majesty’s attention.
If you aren’t seeking an audience with him you have blundered into
the wrong room.’
It was already clear that this interview
would be every bit as unsuccessful as the last.
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
582
582. But not here. Good . . . day!’ If you could have stabbed someone in the face with the phrase ‘good day’, the head of the Guild of Mercers would have lain dead on the floor.
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
583
583. But no one came and sat next to Glokta. Occasionally somebody would hurry up, hardly able to believe their luck in finding such a spot, then they would see him sitting there. Their faces would fall and they would swerve away, or walk right past as though they had never meant to sit.
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
584
584. They could never be friends now, not with all those corpses between them.
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
585
585. Axes and maces and so forth are lethal enough, but a sword is a subtle weapon, and suited to a subtle man. You I think, Master Ninefingers, are subtler than you appear.’
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
586
586. He’d show them he was no fool, no liar, no spoiled child.
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
587
587. Another squeak of merriment. ‘Oh, I don’t think so! I don’t intend to be answering any of your questions, thank you!’
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
588
588. She’s been hurt before, and I’ll not see her hurt any more! Not by you, not by anyone! I won’t stand for it! She’s not one of your games, you hear me?’
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
589
589. Their personal motives for breaking silence may be many: a need to secure their own place in history; a desire to justify their actions; the anecdotage of old men; even perhaps expiation. The same can be said for those who agreed to be identified.
Gideon‘s Spies: Mossads secret warriors by Gordon Thomas
590
590. One of the most profound insights of psychology was the discovery that depressed people tend to have a more accurate view of how much control they truly have over the world around them. Healthy people are necessarily a bit deluded on this score. So, an unreasonably positive belief in how much control you have over your life is necessary to be mentally healthy.
The Seven Principles of Mastery by Guy Windsor
591
591. This is how you buy loyalty, make your katsa do what you want. And in the end what you want is important.
Gideon‘s Spies: Mossads secret warriors by Gordon Thomas
592
592. It is, in my view, impossible to inflict damage on another soul without inflicting damage on your own, no matter the circumstances.
Swordfighting for Writers, Game Designers and Martial Artists by Guy Windsor
593
593. ‘You mean, like . . . they viciously attack you while cowardly running away after tasting cold steel?’
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
594
594. After all, when you seek advice from someone it’s certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
595
595. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people.
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
596
596. [A zombie talks] ‘A bit odd, sir. After the first one chopped my arm off and stabbed me, the rest of them seemed to keep out of my way. Honestly, you’d think they’d never seen a man stabbed before.’
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
597
597. What the original dukes wore, as far as he could see, was good sensible chain mail with blood on it, preferably other people’s—
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
598
598. ‘Fine. Fine. The training. Fine. So if we’re attacked by a lot of sacks of straw hanging from a beam, I can rely on you.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
599
599.
‘It was in a bloody sheath!’
‘Bloody, eh? Used it
already, have you, sir?’
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
600
600.
‘Ah,’ he said, kneeling down by Gappy. ‘You know, I don’t
know why I own a bed. Trainee bottle fighter?’
‘Yes.’
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
601
601. People as meticulously fervent as Reg got real revolutionaries worried. It was the way he stared.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
602
602. Little wheels must spin so that the machine can turn, he’d say.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
603
603. was quite an inexpensive system and it worked well, probably because the clever little bald men who actually ran things and paid some attention to possible candidates were experts at palming a bean into the right bowl.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
604
604. But those who filled the grates and dusted the furniture and swept the floors stayed on, as they had stayed on before, because they seldom paid any attention to, or possibly didn’t even know, who their lord was, and in any case were too useful and knew where the brooms were kept.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
605
605. Here is a fire extinguisher in a glass case, evidently an exhibit of some sort. A bit of staring reveals that the beast is alive: it coils its rubber hose around its prey and sucks flesh through the nozzle. The beast and I exchange glares, and then the nurse drags me away. I wave goodbye.
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
606
606. ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘and what would it contain?’
The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
607
607. And I myself was wrung with emotion – it was heartbreaking, it was absurd, it was deeply perplexing, to think of his life lost in limbo, dissolving.
The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
608
608. But none of us had ever encountered, even imagined, such a power of amnesia, the possibility of a pit into which everything, every experience, every event, would fathomlessly drop, a bottomless memory-hole that would engulf the whole world.
The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
609
609.
‘You don’t enjoy life,’ I repeated, hesitating somewhat. ‘How
then do you feel about life?’
‘I can’t say that I feel
anything at all.’
The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
610
610.
‘You feel alive though?’
‘Feel alive? Not really. I
haven’t felt alive for a very long time.’ His face wore a look of
infinite sadness and resignation.
The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
611
611. One thing Vimes was learning fast was the natural vindictiveness of old ladies, who had no sense of fair play when it came to fighting soldiers; give a granny a spear and a hole to jab it through, and young men on the other side were in big trouble.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
612
612. Manche Sender haben geradezu eine Meisterschaft darin entwickelt, ihre Aussage durch implizite Botschaften an den Mann zu bringen, um sie notfalls dementieren zu können («Das habe ich nicht gesagt!»).
Miteinander reden 1 by Schulz von Thun
613
613. Then the man tripped on a loose shoelace, almost stumbling to the ground.
Gideon‘s Spies by Gordon Thomas
614
614. For ten hours he was left in complete silence. Rafi Eitan “wanted to encourage a feeling of hopelessness. Just before dawn, Eichmann was at his lowest mental state.
Gideon‘s Spies by Gordon Thomas
615
615. “Keeping silent was more than an operational necessity. We did not want to show Eichmann how nervous we all were. That would have given him hope. And hope makes a desperate person dangerous. I needed him to be as helpless as my own people were
Gideon‘s Spies by Gordon Thomas
616
616. create panic among the remaining members of the Black September group who had killed the athletes, Mossad Arab sayanim arranged for their obituaries to appear in local Arab newspapers. Their families received flowers and condolence cards shortly before each was killed.
Gideon‘s Spies by Gordon Thomas
617
617. Then I laid eyes on an abnormally tall man in a black suit. He was greenishly pale, sick-looking, with a shock-ridden look in the eyes. I tried to scream, but was unable to move my lips or make any sounds at all. He kept staring at me with his eyes almost popping out when all of a sudden he started shouting out random numbers, like FIVE-ELEVEN-EIGHT-ONE-THREE-TWO-FOUR-ONE-NINE-TWENTY, then laughed hysterically. . .
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
618
618. see it often with my patients in hospital, who can show extraordinary courage and calmness in facing the most dreadful diseases but fly into a rage if a nurse is late with a bedpan or a medication. The amorality of nature is accepted, whether it takes the form of a monsoon, an elephant in musth, or a disease; but being subjected helplessly to the will of others is not, for human behavior always carries (or is felt to carry) a moral charge.
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
619
619. she felt that she could easily solve any problem (unfortunately, she said wryly, no problem presented itself).
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
620
620. The sensation is commoner if one is alone, in darkness, perhaps in unfamiliar surroundings, hyperalert.
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
621
621. Laws should be made of iron, not of pudding.
A Feast for Crows by GRRM
622
622. Since then hunger walked beside them day and night.
A Dance with Dragons by GRRM
623
623. Sleep would not come, could not come. Instead there was wind, the biting cold, moonlight on snow, and fire.
A Dance with Dragons by GRRM
624
624. Blood flowed thick and sluggish from the slash across his throat.
A Dance with Dragons by GRRM
625
625. “You killed them. You and the ravens. Their faces were all torn, and their eyes were gone.” Coldhands did not deny it. “They were your brothers. I saw. The wolves had ripped their clothes up, but I could still tell. Their cloaks were black. Like your hands.“
A Dance with Dragons by GRRM
626
626. Each of Stark’s bannermen must send us a son as hostage. A daughter will suffice where there is no son. They shall be treated gently and given high places here at court, so long as their fathers commit no new treasons.
A Clash of Kings by GRRM
627
627. The highest percentage of ungrammatical sentences was found in the proceedings of learned academic conferences.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
628
628. There wasn’t much food in deep caves, after all; the simple life for dwarfs down below happened because of quite complex lives for a lot of dwarfs above.
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
629
629. To see the light is to be blinded. Do you not know that in darkness the eyes open wider?
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
630
630.
‘You goin’ back to der Watch House by way o’ Turn Again Lane?’
he said.
‘No, that’s well out of—’ Vimes stopped.
There had been a hint of suggestion in the troll’s voice.
‘Give
my regard to der ol’ lady at next door to der cake shop,’ said
the troll.
‘Er, I will, will I?’ said Vimes, nonplussed.
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
631
631. ‘And you think spending a few thousand years buried in sludge is likely to be fun?’
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
632
632.
‘Can’t face him like this,’ he murmured.
‘I had a word
with Secretary Drumknott, sir. Hot water, a razor and a big cup of
coffee will be waiting in the palace.’
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
633
633. Note his equivocation: at the end of the first paragraph, a concept is unimaginable and therefore nameless; at the end of the second, a concept is nameless and therefore unimaginable.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
634
634. a statement that goes against all common sense but that everyone believes because they dimly recall having heard it somewhere
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
635
635.
‘What would you do if I asked you an outright question, Vimes?’
‘I’d tell you a downright lie, sir.’
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
636
636. He gave Vetinari the look which said: if you take this any further I will have to lie. Vetinari returned one which said: I know.
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
637
637. ‘However, obviously I do not wish to put you under any kind of pressure,’ he finished.
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
638
638. He led Schaller to other languageless adults in forgotten corners of society. Despite their isolation from the verbal world, they displayed many abstract forms of thinking, like rebuilding broken locks, handling money, playing card games, and entertaining each other with long pantomimed narratives.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
639
639. Second, since there are far more concepts than there are words, and listeners must always charitably fill in what the speaker leaves unsaid, existing words will quickly gain new senses, perhaps even regain their original senses.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
640
640. To study the enemy you have to get under his skin. When you’re under his skin you start to see the world through his eyes. Gabbro is so good at playing from the dwarf viewpoint that his troll game is suffering, and he wants to go to Copperhead to learn from some of the dwarf thudmeisters there. I hope he does; they’ll teach him how to play like a troll.
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
641
641.
‘The other gentleman I have lodged on a meat hook, sir.’
‘You
didn’t—’ Vimes began, horrified.
‘Only through his
clothing, sir.
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
642
642. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned into solid steel.
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
643
643. We will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass container.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
644
644. Other tenses in Bantu can refer to today, earlier today, yesterday, no earlier than yesterday, yesterday or earlier, in the remote past, habitually, ongoing, consecutively, hypothetically, in the future, at an indeterminate time, not yet, and sometimes.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
645
645. Children like to play along, and the more gruesome the meal, the more eagerly they fill in the blank, often to the dismay of their onlooking parents.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
646
646. You can’t ask questions, it’s magic. It doesn’t explain anything, it’s magic. You don’t know where it comes from, it’s magic! That’s what I don’t like about magic, it does everything by magic!
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
647
647. Something in the head went click and you found something to do, anything, to stop yourself thinking.
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
648
648. But I think you misunderstand. I am not here to keep darkness out. I’m here to keep it in.
Thud! by Terry Pratchett
649
649. Because of the acoustic effects of the lips, when we talk to a happy person over the phone, we can literally hear the smile.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
650
650. Human communication is not just a transfer of information like two fax machines connected with a wire; it is a series of alternating displays of behavior by sensitive, scheming, second-guessing, social animals.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
651
651. and he felt the cold, bottomless depths of time around him, somehow breathing from the walls.
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
652
652. also know seventy-three farmyard noises, my favourite of which is the sound of a farmer who has had one boot sucked from his foot by the muck he’s trying to avoid and has nowhere else to put his stockinged foot but in the said muck. Hugely amusing, sir.
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
653
653. I know that, but you know that I think that if you’re going to stop the wheel then you have to spare some thought for the poor buggers who’re sitting on zero.’
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
654
654. It is like the man who claimed to be selling Abraham Lincoln’s ax—he explained that over the years the head had to be replaced twice and the handle three times.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
655
655. The infant is like a person who has been given a complicated piece of audio equipment bristling with unlabeled knobs and switches but missing the instruction manual. In such situations people resort to what hackers call frobbing—fiddling aimlessly with the controls to see what happens.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
656
656. The question is, is every day a lottery in which the odds of drawing a fatal ticket are the same, or do the odds get worse and worse the longer we play?
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
657
657. His arm itched. He tried to ignore it, but just for a moment there was a dripping cave in front of him, and no other thought except of terrible endless vengeance.
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
658
658. I meant, Mister Po-leess-maan, thank you for believing that goblins have names.
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
659
659. You didn’t have much control over your life, but by Jimmy you could keep it clean and show the world you were poor but respectable. That was the dread: the dread of falling back, losing standards, becoming no better than those people who bred and fought and stole in that ferocious turmoil of a rookery known as the Shades.
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
660
660. “A man who would do something like that to a dog is a man to whom the law should pay close attention. Search his house immediately.”
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
661
661. I tell you, commander, it’s true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they’re doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
662
662. ‘Well, far be it from me to whiten a man’s name against his will,’
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
663
663. sometimes your expression becomes so wooden that I think I could make a table out of it.
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
664
664. He couldn’t simply kill him, with no warning. He’d have to let him, by carelessness or over-confidence, kill himself.
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
665
665. and five men of this description were closing cautiously on the trio to introduce them to this week’s special offer, a cut throat plus theft and burial in the river mud of your choice.
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
666
666.
‘Our mum said his heart was in the right place,’ said Gern.
The
king, hovering dismally in the corner, gave a gloomy nod. Yes,
he thought. Jar three, top shelf.
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
667
667. Claimed he lost it. Tried taking the job himself. I had to get it from our friends at the phone company.
Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley
668
668. But what most impressed him was the fact that the people in the audience believed. For a few minutes they believed this laudanum-addicted Welsh actor was Hamlet. That kind of power impressed young Frank.
Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley
669
669. In a fourth kind, Broca’s and Wernicke’s and the link between them are intact but they are an island cut off from the rest of the cortex, and these patients eerily repeat what they hear without understanding it or ever speaking spontaneously.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
670
670. Pure Word Deafness that is exactly what it sounds like: the patients can read and speak, and can recognize environmental sounds like music, slamming doors, and animal cries, but cannot recognize spoken words; words are as meaningless as if they were from a foreign language.
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
671
671. It occurred to Teppic that the landless peasants down on the delta had more freedom than he did, although the seditious and non-kingly side of him said, yes, freedom to catch any diseases of their choice, starve as much as they wanted, and die of whatever dreadful ague took their fancy. But freedom, of a sort.
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
672
672. It was like a lot of Granny’s answers. Just a word trick. She just said things you knew all the time, but in a different way so they sounded important.
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
673
673. If you invited a hedge wizard to a party he would spend half the evening talking to your potted plant. And he would spend the other half listening.
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
674
674. Aye tell you, girl, a white magician is just a black magician with a good housekeeper.
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
675
675. Bentzen had gone to see the man and explained that falling down a flight of steps with a dagger in your back was a disease caused by unwise opening of the mouth.
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
676
676. They’d laughed at that. “Whalers” becoming whalers, changing jobs but not their masks.
Dishonored – The Corroded Man by Adam Christopher
677
677. was a landscape never intended for human beings—not hostile, anymore than a brick or cloud is hostile, but terribly, terribly uncaring.
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
678
678. “But milk jugs don’t just drop out of the sky,” said Tomjon, demonstrating the astonishing human art of denying the obvious.
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
679
679. But what they don’t have is a word meaning “rock.” Show a dwarf a rock and he sees, for example, an inferior piece of crystalline sulphite of barytes.
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
680
680. And what good would that be? Cutting your way through a bit of bramble is how you can tell he’s going to be a good husband, is it?
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
681
681. This wolf was trying to be human.
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
682
682. Stories are not, on the whole, interested in swineherds who remain swineherds and poor and humble shoemakers whose destiny is to die slightly poorer and much humbler. These people were the ones who made the magical kingdom work, who cooked its meals and swept its floors and carted its night soil and were its faces in the crowd and whose wishes and dreams, undemanding as they were, were of no consequence. The invisibles.
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
683
683. “That’s because you’re basically good,” said Magrat. “The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.”
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
684
684. They don’t fight to kill, but to win. There is a difference. There’s no point in killing an opponent. That way, they won’t know they’ve lost, and to be a real winner you have to have an opponent who is beaten and knows it. There’s no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
685
685. You stopped living. You never died. I did not come for you then.
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
686
686. Elves were skilled at leaving things alive, often for weeks.
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
687
687. What’s the point of having a king, they thought, if you have to rule yourself? He should do his job, even if he couldn’t spell properly. No one was asking him to thatch roofs or milk cows, were they?
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
688
688. and the halls of Mandos that ever widen as the ages pass are clothed with them.
The Silmarillion by J.R.R.Tolkien
689
689. We only remembers that the elves sang. We forgets what it was they were singing about.
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
690
690. It’s all very well a potion calling for Love-in-idleness, but which of the thirty-seven common plants called by that name in various parts of the continent was actually meant?
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
691
691. “Being alone isn’t the same as not having other people around,” said Granny.
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
692
692. And she turned people into gingerbread and had a house made of frogs. It had been very nasty, toward the end.
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
693
693. For thou hast from me as a gift thy own being only, and no more; and therefore the creatures of thy hand and mind can live only by that being, moving when thou thinkest to move them, and if thy thought be elsewhere, standing idle. Is that thy desire?
The Silmarillion by J.R.R.Tolkien
694
694. “She’s a fighter. People like Lena don’t kill themselves. They kill other people, but they don’t kill themselves.”
Blindsighted by Karen Slaughter
695
695. A recent four-hundred-million-dollar renovation made the hospital look like part of the set for a Batman movie.
Blindsighted by Karen Slaughter
696
696. Tall, it was, and gaunt and hard as old bones, with flesh pale as milk. Its armor seemed to change color as it moved; here it was white as new-fallen snow, there black as shadow, everywhere dappled with the deep grey-green of the trees. The patterns ran like moonlight on water with every step it took.
A Game of Thrones by GRRM
697
697. ‘I am afraid that’s true,’ said Merry, ‘though I don’t know what I said. I had an ugly dream, which I can’t remember. I went to pieces. I don’t know what came over me.’
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
698
698. In one of the windows he caught a glimpse of a sallow face with sly, slanting eyes; but it vanished at once.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
699
699. And this, Mr. Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in you.
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
700
700. ‘Sam and Pippin have trampled the soft ground, and the marks are spoilt or confused.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
701
701. But gathering and catching food is long and weary work, and we need haste.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
702
702. If civilization were to collapse totally and the survivors were reduced to eating cockroaches, Madame Dawning would still use a napkin and look down on people who ate their cockroaches the wrong way around.
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
703
703. Half the stories rely on people not recognizing their servants or wives because they’ve got a tiny mask on!
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
704
704. Cold reading, wishful thinking, deductive reasoning. Throw out some general statement that could apply to any person on this Earth— “I’m sensing that something is troubling you.” “You’re amazing! Yes, it’s my husband ...” —and the mark tells you the rest.
John Dies at the End by David Wong
705
705. I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just because a colored lightbulb told me to. Society has got me so fucking trained.
John Dies at the End by David Wong
706
706. I can usually cobble together a pretty good lie if I have a couple of hours to plan—
John Dies at the End by David Wong
707
707.
Robert the pseudo-Jamaican’s body was curled up on the floor,
twitching. He was saying, “I’m okay, I’m okay, mon! Just give
me a minute now! I’m feelin’ better!”
His words would
have been more reassuring if his head hadn’t been separated from
his body, laying a good two feet away from the shredded pink stump of
his neck.
John Dies at the End by David Wong
708
708.
“You know, I’m surprised the door stopped them, since they can
teleport around like that. You’d think they could just blink right
through it.”
There was sudden silence from beyond the door, a
muttering like the creatures had just realized something. From behind
me, Jim screamed.
John Dies at the End by David Wong
709
709. They know your name. So even reading about the Devil tips him off, he knows instantly he’s being read about and that you’re somebody he may have to deal with.
John Dies at the End by David Wong
710
710. “No. That stuff, the crosses and all that, either it works because we think it works, or because the bad guys think it works. Or maybe there’s some power everybody can tap into if they just know how.”
John Dies at the End by David Wong
711
711.
They used to build these old houses with doors that just led to a big
drop, to fool burglars. They’d label that door TREASURY or
something like that. The guy busts through the door and finds himself
falling straight down. They’d put spikes or something down there.
They used to call it an ‘Irish Elevator.’”
“Or, John,
they tore a balcony off here years ago and just never bothered to
take out the door.”
John Dies at the End by David Wong
712
712. Notice the subtle transition from “can you do it” from a few seconds ago to “will you do it.” If I had jumped in and answered “no” to the first one, I’d have been saying I can’t, it’s impossible. If I refuse now, though, I’m saying I won’t do it. I can, but I choose not to because I’m an apathetic asshole. Smooth.
John Dies at the End by David Wong
713
713. The avenging demon—or whatever it was—got the wrong car, barbecued the wrong guy. So they can make mistakes. They can confuse identities.
John Dies at the End by David Wong
714
714. In whatever way people live, maybe you don’t have a body they can cut or bruise or burn but the worst pain isn’t in the nerve endings, is it? Total fear and submission and torment and deprivation and hopelessness, that tidal wave of hopelessness.
John Dies at the End by David Wong
715
715. SOCIETY IS DOOMED for one very simple reason: it takes dozens of men working months with millions of dollars in materials to build a building, but only one dumb-ass with a bomb to bring it down.
John Dies at the End by David Wong
716
716. Zögert also und fürchtet euch nicht, denn wenn der heilige Geist über euch kommt, who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!
Henry Frottey by Jan Philipp Zymny
717
717. developed centuries ago by early linguists such as Pinker and Ruhlen, had established the single-origin theory of all human languages. Colm selected from that list those essential words more likely to appear in alien languages. Not every species had noticeable ears, could weep tears, or had tasted salt, so those words were left off his list, but all orbited their star
Reading the Bones by Sheila Finch
718
718. almost as old as Ursin Colm, but the years that had rubbed away his edges seemed to have tempered hers into steel.
Reading the Bones by Sheila Finch
719
719. Schnell hinterher, dachte Henry, jetzt hieß es zuschlagen – auch, wenn es noch viel zu früh dafür war, denn es war erst Kapitel 8 und schließlich mussten noch 14 Kapitel kommen.
Henry Frottey by Jan Philipp Zymny
720
720. Sam fell over, and the long grey coils slithered silently down on top of him.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
721
721. ‘Day is near,’ he whispered, as if Day was something that might overhear him and spring on him.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
722
722. Far above the rot and vapours of the world the Sun was riding high and golden now in a serene country with floors of dazzling foam, but only a passing ghost of her could they see below, bleared, pale, giving no colour and no warmth.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
723
723.
‘Not a bird!’ said Sam mournfully.
‘No, no birds,’ said
Gollum. ‘Nice birds!’ He licked his teeth. ‘No birds here.
There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things,
lots of nasty things. No birds,’ he ended sadly.
Sam looked
at him with distaste.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
724
724.
You stink, and master stinks; the whole place stinks.’
‘Yes,
yes, and Sam stinks!’ answered Gollum. ‘Poor Sméagol smells it,
but good Sméagol bears it. Helps nice master. But that’s no
matter.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
725
725. But the strength of Gondor failed, and men slept, and for long years the towers stood empty. Then Sauron returned.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
726
726. [Sam on wishing to see his old man again] He could go on telling me as long as he’d got breath, if only I could see his old face again. But I’d have to get a wash first, or he wouldn’t know me.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
727
727. If I, wearing it, were to command you, you would obey, even if it were to leap from a precipice or to cast yourself into the fire. And such would be my command.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
728
728. He does not expect attack that way. His Eye is all round, but it attends more to some places than to others. He can’t see everything all at once, not yet.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
729
729. Grey as a mouse, Big as a house, Nose like a snake, I make the earth shake,
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
730
730. They are fierce. They have black eyes, and long black hair, and gold rings in their ears; yes, lots of beautiful gold. And some have red paint on their cheeks, and red cloaks; and their flags are red, and the tips of their spears; and they have round shields, yellow and black with big spikes. Not nice; very cruel wicked Men
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
731
731. single red light burned high up in the Towers of the Teeth, but otherwise no sign could be seen or heard of the sleepless watch on the Morannon. For many miles the red eye seemed to stare at them as they fled, stumbling through a barren stony country.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
732
732. “Yes! It goes all the way down! Except at the bottom where it goes all the way up!”
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
733
733. There’s a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness. I bet you could do just what you liked, behind a mask…?
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
734
734. All three of them had their hands clasped behind their backs the way cops do when they’re at a scene so they won’t accidentally contaminate anything.
Kisscut by Karin Slaughter
735
735. Hank seemed angry, but she knew his animosity was directed toward himself for not knowing how to help, not at Lena. It was a familiar scene that had played out every day since she had come home from the hospital.
Kisscut by Karin Slaughter
736
736. Because that was the point, wasn’t it? You had to choose. You might be right, you might be wrong, but you had to choose, knowing that the rightness or wrongness might never be clear or even that you were deciding between two sorts of wrong, that there was no right anywhere. And always, always, you did it by yourself. You were the one there, on the edge, watching and listening.
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
737
737. “His full name is James What the Hell’s That Cow Doing in Here Poorchick,” said Magrat.
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
738
738. She learned to look around when she visited someone’s home, because in one way it was a piece of clothing and had grown to fit their shape. It might show not just what they’d been doing, but what they’d been thinking. You might be visiting someone who expected you to know everything about everything, and in those circumstances you took every advantage you could get.
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
739
739. “Anyway, that’s why she’s always standin’ behind herself and criticizin’ what she’s doing. Some-times I reckon she’s terrified she’ll go bad without noticin’.”
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
740
740.
“We don’t usually go as far as that anymore,” said Vlad,
dragging her forward. “And when we do…well, we make sure that we
only kill people who deserve to die.”
“Oh well, that’s
all right then, isn’t it,” said Agnes. “I’m sure I’d trust
a vampire’s judgment.”
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
741
741. “Oh yes. Nothing’s going to happen to him. It’s like that chess stuff, see? Let the Queen do the fightin’, ’cos if you lose the King you’ve lost everything.”
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
742
742. There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby.
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
743
743. “You win thome, you lothe thome,” he said. “The old marther uthed to thay, ‘Igor, the day vampireth win all the time, that’th the day we’ll be knocked back beyond return.’
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
744
744. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world, other people are also people, while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
745
745. She hurried around the hill. Whenever Lofty and Tonker were together, she felt like a trespasser.
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
746
746.
“Here, let me,” said Igorina, producing her stick. “Blows to
the head are potentially harmful and should not be undertaken
lightly. Turn around, sir. Remove your helmet, please. Would twenty
minutes unconsciousness be okay?”
“Yes, thanks very mu—”
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
747
747. “But why did you say you were a cherry pancake?” said Polly.
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
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