8 Quotes by Miles Cameron

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    Later in the night, Nell brought two of the company mutts up from the stables. It took her almost an hour to find the horses, and more time to find the stall where the dogs had been penned. Then she lost her way coming back through the endless corridors and the mutts tried to bite an Ordinary.Everything is an adventure when you're a page.

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    Ser Tomaso,” she said. “It is very likely we will all die.” “Or worse,” said Brown, the first words he’d said in days. Ser Tomaso made a brave face. “Perhaps,” he said. “But we will eat well.

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    Do you know that in the Archaic Empire, the Master of Spies referred to every agent by the name of a flower or an animal or some such - never by their own names. Not even their sexes were known.""Sex?" asked Guisarme. "We wouldn't use women as spies, would we?"There was the briefest pause, as there always is when a dozen men realise that one of their number is a fool.

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    War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.

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    These Outwallers that killed Hector - the Sossag - they were serving a Power of the Wild called Thorn. Aye?""Naming calls. But yes." The captain drank."So I call him and he comes and I gut him," Tom said. "So?

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    Sauce grinned. 'Anytime, baby,' she said.'We could make that our motto,' allowed the Captain.

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