"When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time."
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"Hello?” I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall. “And may I wish a very good morning to you, too, October.” The voice was amused, underscored by a chuckle like thick cream. “What happened? Did the prettiest little princess miss her carriage home?"
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"...even saying good-bye isn’t enough. There’s always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There’s always going to be that one missing piece."
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"You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me."
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"Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luideag: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up and gives you what you want. All preschoolers have an instinctive grasp of this concept, but most don’t practice it on immortal water demons. That’s probably why there are so few disembowelments in your average preschool."
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"I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror."
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"There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host."
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"It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad scientists who never met a corpse they wouldn't try to resurrect. Anyone coming within a hundred yards of my happy ending had better pray that they're immune to bullets. - Shaun Mason"
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"I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen."
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"It’s lovely,” I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.” “That’s the best you can manage? That’s your bright, bold lie?” “Look, lady, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,” I snapped."
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"You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all."
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"We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius."
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"In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected."
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"Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside."
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"If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away."
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"Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens."
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"You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.' Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's...almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way."
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"Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever."
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"I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been."
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"Some people live where they work. Others just visit."
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