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Q: The Witness is reminded that she may be held in contempt.
A: The feeling is mutual.

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.

We create our own omens, I think, and then mystify ourselves trying to understand their significance.

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.

The door opened, and Ren emerged, and my heart did a thing.

It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

You're stubborn, Vlad."

"Is that a compliment?

I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

I'm a decent cook. I'm an outstanding eater.

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

Your job is to find better ideas, mine is to cut holes in the ones you have, and you've already done that pretty well.

I suggested that my patron goddess should take sensual pleasure, though I didn't put it quite in those terms.

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

People trying to force their agenda on my by deciding how I'm permitted to speak is offensive.

It is as if I have changed in some way, but I can't tell what it is, or if it will fade with time.

Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

There's nothing worse than a smartass who pretends not to understand hyperbole.

Those are good questions. I recognize good questions, because I can come up with them myself.

[...] I've learned something about my own hunches: the only time they turn out to be meaningful is when I ignore them.

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

I have a clever and devious plan.

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

Chapter the Eleventh: In Which the Plot, Behaving in Much the Manner Of a Soup to which Corn Starch Has been Added, Begins, at Last, to Thicken.

But then, it is the mark of a good book that it rewards many readings, is it not?

Painting consists of long periods of minutes followed by short bursts of hours

I tend to close my eyes when I look at people anymore.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

But we're assassins: when we make mistakes, people live

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

Saving someone's life is a wonderful feeling. Try it. You feel like, if you don't mind a TV reference, a big damn hero.

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

She grinned and nodded and another frozen thing inside of me melted.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.

What foul sorcery is this?" she said. "Pretty standard foul sorcery; nothing special." "Okay," she said. "Just checking.

Erik maintained his ignorance in any and every matter he came across, and even improved upon it when he could. The

Let him who doubts the victory wrest the banner from my hand.

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

When you stop being surprised, you've stopped living.

Short version: it doesn't matter how many bad decisions you just made, your job is to make the next one correct.

Can you be serious for two words?"
"Not without effort.

Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.

What are you working on?" "I'm trying to set up a store to sell baskets of none-of-your-fucking-business at wholesale prices.

It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.

Several years ago, I was getting drunk with four or five of the most powerful sorcerers in the Empire - like you do - when Daymar told a story.