61 Quotes by C.S. Pacat

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    To keep. I wouldn't wear it.' said Laurent, 'though I don't believe your imagination is having any difficulty with the idea.

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    When you lost your brother, was there someone to comfort you?""Yes," said Laurent. "In a way.""Then I'm glad," said Damen. "I'm glad that you weren't alone."Laurent pushed himself away, up into a sitting position, and for a moment he sat, without speaking. He pushed his palms into his eye sockets. "What is it?""It's nothing," said Laurent.

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    I want you to know,' said Damen, carefully, 'that I haven't done anything to encourage the idea that I-that you and I-''If I thought you had, I'd have had you tied to a post and flogged until your front matched your back.

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    You and Auguste would have been slapping each other on the back and watching tournaments, and I would have been trailing around you tugging on your sleeve, trying to get a look in edgewise.” After a moment, Laurent said, “He would have liked you.

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    Something to say?' said LaurentJord was holding off from them. The same stubborn distaste was in his voice. 'Not with him here.''He's your Captain,' said Laurent.'He knows well enough he should go.''While we compare notes on spreading for the enemy?' said Laurent.

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    It was like watching a boar try to take on the endless blue of the sky. Damen remembered how it felt to be coerced to Laurent's will. Laurent had never needed to use force to make men obey him, just as he had never needed men to like him in order to get his way. Laurent got his way because when men tried to resist him, they found, sweetly outmanoeuvred, that they couldn’t.

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    There was a man I was supposed to meet. He’s got all these ideas about honour and fair play, and he tries to keep me from doing the wrong thing. But he’s not here right now. Unfortunately for you.

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    You left out the part near the end, when it was so good I let myself forget what he'd done

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