100 Quotes by Max Gladstone

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    We cannot save our clients from themselves. Someday in your career, Elayne, you will represent a man – almost certainly a man – who wants you to help him barter his soul to a demon for three wishes. When that day comes you may refuse his business, you may try to change his mind, but in the end if hell he wants, hell he will achieve.

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    The night’s triumph is inevitable as prophecy, but wet air holds the day’s heat, sweaty fingers tangled in solar curls.

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    I do not understand you. But neither do I understand fire, or starlight, or storms, and I love them.

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    Yes,” she said. “It makes you the most stupid, single-minded collection of religious fanatics I’ve ever come across. I mean,” she amended as growls rose about her and green eyes narrowed, “I could not imagine ever doing something like that, but it’s terribly sweet.

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    Meditation handbooks from Sheer Peaks monasteries advised the practitioner to envision herself midcopulation with a sensory lushness from which even an Iskari romance might shrink – and then to envision one’s partner undergoing the many stages of death and decomposition, until one lay in congress with a skeleton. Which proved, to Kai’s mind, that monks were a lot kinkier than most people gave them credit.

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    He drinks the life of those who come too close to him. Steals their youth. Also,” she said after a pause, “he moisturizes.

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    Religious men often think about death, and Abelard had given some thought to his last words. “I told you so” had not been on the list. The.

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    Riding broomsticks, consorting with unholy powers. Who has the time for such pleasantries anymore? Why, I haven’t been on a date since the late eighties.

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    Learn so you can work. Practice so you can play. Follow so you can lead. No one stays who she is forever.

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