"Bags!"

"Dead is dead."

"People are stupid."

"Nothing is ever easy."

"True as toasted toads"

"There's trouble coming."

"There, you said it again."

"Drunken men die too easy."

"Enemies are the price of honor."

"Every living thing is a murderer."

"Did you bring me anything to eat?"

"There is magic in patience, you know."

"You have lost. In more ways than one."

"Fate does not always seek our consent."

"Once lucky, twice confident, thrice dead."

"History is rarely made by reasonable men."

"A trick, when preformed correctly, IS magic!"

"You will never get those tangles out, dear one."

"The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play."

"Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey."

"The Seeker is the weapon, the sword is just a tool."

"Lord Rahl, indeed... The paperwork must be grueling."

"Don't worry about what might be...Worry about what is"

"Ah well, you'll learn. This wizard business is complicated."

"I have my wizards rock along. Could I interest you? Naked?"

"Sometimes, that's all life is, one desperate act after another."

"The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking."

"This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything."

"The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways."

"Fair warning to those living and those dead. The Seeker is named."

"Bags! This flying rug has eaten! And you don't want to know what!"

"There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people."

"I let them suffer the worst possibility, the results of their own actions."

"The problem with my eyes is that they have been famished, but now they are feasting."

"The elders are becoming concerned. They would like to know when they can have their spirit house back."

"It could be a thousand and one things, and he's settled on the one, because he's never heard of the other thousand."

"Why would you say that? I've ben told that I'm a most pleasant traveling companion. Do we have any of that sausage left?"

"But the council didn't understand: it wasn't the post that brought the power to the person, it was the person that brought the power to the post."

"Come on Richard, we're all friends here. There are no secrets among us." Richard laughed. "I've had strangers tell me more about themselves!"

"I don't understand. Do you Gentlemen want to do away with me because you think I have magic or is it simply your intention to demean me by calling me a woman?"

"Who would you be more afraid of: a two-hundred pound man who wants to steal a loaf of bread from you and knows he is doing wrong, or a one-hundred pound woman who believes, wrongly, but believes with all her heart, that you stole her baby?"


Quotes of Richard

"I am the weapon."

"Blade, be true this day."

"Trouble sires three childeren."

"I accept the position of Seeker."

"Promise made . . .Promise kept!"

"You are ruled by mean little men."

"I am the Seeker. I can do anything."

"Third time tricked, marks the fool."

"I'm not. I'm the one who killed him."

"Dance with me death, for I am ready."

"The Third Rule: Passion rules Reason."

"Think of the solution not the problem."

"You are little more than a lapdog to Rahl."

"Cut open my stomach and read it on my guts."

"I'll never look at an apple the same way again."

"I am the bringer of death, I have named myself so."

"It's better then a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!"

"Zedd, what in the name of everything good is a seeker?"

"Make sure the shadow you chase is not the one you cast."

"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed."

"You will wear this in the depths of death. Forever. Kneel."

"My foot is fine, the chair died, but I don't think it suffered."

"The Sword of Truth is only a tool. The Seeker is the weapon."

"You are welcome to my sword when I am no longer breathing."

"I dislike riddles. They leave to much room for misinterpretation."

"We will die with a sword in our hands and not chains on our wings."

"Everyone has secrets, and the right to keep them when there be need."

"What kind of plans would the Master Rahl have? I plan to conquer the world."

"Come brother Wind, blow a gale for me! What, did you eat some bad berries...?"

"Problems with the dream walker, Ulicia? Well, I wouldn't know. I sleep like a baby."

"By the spirits, I intend to see you all die in bed, toothless and old. Get used to the idea!"

"When you are out numbered, and the situation is hopeless, you have no option--you must attack!"

"You may find, Sister Verna, that holding the leash to this collar is worse than wearing it. Much worse."

"I think you are bound and determined, one way or another, to have your clothes off in the spirit house."

"We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him."

"The last time I saw one of the boxes of Orden, it was open, and it was sucking my bastard father into the underworld." Warren faints.

Quotes of Kahlan

"A pesky in-law."

"And so they sent me, because I do."

"What's with you, women, and baths?"

"I am sore in places I cannot mention."

"You are a rare person, Richard Cypher."

"I knew I should have kept my mouth shut."

"We all can be only who we are, no more, no less."

"Why don't you do it? Because you only like little boys?"

"Please Richard, I want you in my bed, I want you in me."

"Well, Wizards can get pretty scarey when they're drunk."

"Choose, then. With us or not. But choose this day for all time."

"I'm going to cut these off. When I do, I don't want you to make a sound."

"Women's specialty is to bring forth life, and men's specialty is to take it away."

"Never let a woman set your path for you, when there is a man in her line of sight."

"I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me ! Only victory can return my life to me!"

"Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love."

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Kahlan to Cara, "I'll only be a minute. I don't think he can spoil my honor in a minute."
"With Lord Rahl, anything is possible."
"That was two minutes."
***
"Well, my breasts aren't as large as yours, Berdine. I think Raina's hands would fit mine better."

"I just wish I'd known you were there the whole time. Now, thanks to you, I won't need the wooden bowl."

"Don't shed tears for those already in the ground, until after you have brought vengeance to those who put them there. There will be time enough then."

"If war is brought to you, then let there be war like you enemy have never imagined in his most frightening nightmares. Anything less, and you hand victory to your foe."

"But if you ever meet him, don't you dare tell him about this...pretending to be a spirit business. He has rather fussy views about such things. If you told him you let me run around naked with a thousand of your men, he would probably take your head off."


Quotes of Mord-Sith

"Mord-Sith -- giggling!"

"You are one twisted bastard!"

"This man is going to be trouble."

"Hurry up and torture me before I fall asleep and miss it."

"Lord Rahl has very big hands. They fit perfectly over my breasts."

"The spirits save us from a man with a just cause.Its not up to you to lead them."

"If you get yourself killed trying to rule the world, I will personally break every bone in your body."

"She won't try to make us wear dresses, will she? We'll obey her, but Mord-Sith don't wear dresses."

"Lord Rahl, I know you like me the best, but stop thinking about my behind as I walk, and write your letter."

"Yes there are several out there but i told them you were too busy sweet-talking me to be bothered right now."

"Lord Rahl told us to protect you as we would protect him. If you are not careful, Mother Confessor, and needlessly endanger Lord Rahl . . . I will withdraw my permission for Richard to keep you."

"Be proud you made right choices, Richard, the choices that allowed to happen what came about, but do not call arrogance to your heart by believing that all that happened was your doing."

Quotes of Nathan

"I look dashing!"

"Because I would look dashing with a sword at my hip."

"Thank you for coming, Vincent. Sorry you have to leave now. Let me show you out."

"You want to be healed, now? Or would you prefer to bleed to death so I can try my hand at resurrection?"

"Well finally! We did everything but to leave a note pinned to the hem of her dress that said, "Oh by the way, the Prelate and the prophet are still alive, you dolt."

Quotes of Scarlet

"You look funny without your pants"

"For a dragon, it is better to die than be ruled."

Quotes of Adie

"That be a lie."

"Put words to your need."

"Tell me. What be stonger, teeth or tongue?"

"Bah. I be fine. My head be thicker than Cara's."

"One be true, one be a lie. How much more difference could there be?"

"You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed."

"She has a thick skull," Adie said. "It not be cracked, but she should lie still for a time -- at least until she recovers her balance."

"Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble."

Quotes of Shota

"Hard fought,Richard. Hardfought. And well earned."

"It is only by action in the present that we can change what otherwise will come to pass."

"Wizard's Fourth Rule, there is magic in forgiveness. In the forgiveness you grant, and in the forgiveness you receive."

Quotes of Ann

"You actually read the reports?!?"

"Nathan bought himself a sword today. He is now fighting invisible monsters. He is a one thousand year old child." "And if we again come across people and you start yelling that you've been abducted by a mad witch and held prisoner in a magic collar, I'll make you deaf and dumb for real!"

"Good and evil, the Creator and the Keeper, are chaos divided into two opposing forces. Although each abhors the other, they are interdependent, and cannot exist one without the other. They define each other. The struggle, our struggle in this world, is maintaining the balance."

Quotes of Verna

"They're just dumb beasts."

"The Emperor has some unusual tastes"

"In a land of the blind, a one-eyed woman can be queen."

"Youth. Youth holds much hope, but not much wisdom. I know the ways of people. Of men. He has been gone too long from my skirts. He will have long ago forgotten me, and found another."

"Suppose we preached truthfulness, and at the same time gladly handed out a penny for each lie told. What do you venture would be the result?" Phoebe answers: "I'd venture we'd soon be penniless."

Quotes of Chase

"Gives a lot of orders for a woods guide."

Quotes of Sliph

"Breathe!"

"I am long enough"

"Yes, I was a whore, like her."

"Do you wish to travel, master?"

Quotes of Many

"I am no coward, but I am no heroine in a song, and no fool either." Spoken by Jebra.

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"You have an odd talent of making me feel better, Richard Cypher, even when telling me of my death."
He smiled. "That's what friends are for."

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"Now, stop being rude and introduce me to your girlfriend."
"Zedd, this is my friend, Kahlan Amnell."
"Oh, was I wrong? She's not a girl then?"

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"Well?" Her voice jolted him out of his thoughts."
"What? Well, what?"
"Well, did you get whatever it was you went to get?"
"Yes."
"So what was it?"
"What was it? It was my backpack. I had to get my backpack."
"Richard Cypher, you expect me to believe you risked your life to get your backpack?"
"Kahlan, you are coming close to getting kicked."

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"You've met Zedd, then. He's wonderful, isn't he?"
"He tried to kill me,"Jennsen muttered.
"Zedd?" Richard scoffed. "Zedd's harmless."
"Harmless? He--"
The Mord-Sith, Cara, poked at Jennsen with the red rod she had--the Agiel.
"What are you doing?" Jennsen asked. "Stop that."
"That doesn't do anything to you?"
"No." Jennsen said, scowling.

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"You sure know a lot about magic," Jennsen said to Richard.
Kahlan and Cara laughed so hard that Jennsen thought they might fall of their horses.
"I don't see what's so funny," Richard grumbled.
The two off them laughed all the harder.

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"Only a fool walks into the future backward."
Spoken by: General Trimack

"Words can't cut you. Ward only for steel. Fight only steel."
Spoken by: Wyborn Amnell

"The Creator came to me again last night, Lunetta."
Spoken by: Tobias Brogan

"I think the Creator is going insane"
Spoken by: Tobias Brogan

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"Men have uncontrollable urges." -Sister Dulcinia.

"So do I, but with the Creator's help I've so far managed not to strangle anyone." -Prelate Verna.

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"How are you doing, Captain?" Richard grasped the man's elbow.
"What's the matter? Did you fall off your horse, or something?"
The captain glanced at Cara, to his side. "Ah, well, I'm fine, Lord Rahl. Really."
"You look hurt."
"I just had my ribs...tickled by your Mord-Sith, that's all."
"I didn't do it hard enough to break them," Cara scoffed.

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"Well, if the ribs bother you, let me know," Care said dryly, "and I'll kiss them and make them better."

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Richard had to lift the food toward him a second time before he took it. "It's only some rice and beans, Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage."
Cara gaffawed. "Mord-Sith don't marry. They simply take a man for a mate if the wish him --he gets no say in it."

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"Your lucky: I made dinner tonight, instead of Cara." Richard said.
Cara, proud of being a poor cook, smiled as if it were an accomplishment of note.

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"We're going to a place in the mountains, where other people don't go, so we can be alone, and safe. The Mother Confessor will be able to get well there and gain back her strength. While we're there, I may even make Cara start wearing a dress."
Cara shot to her feet. "What!" When she saw Richard's smile, Cara realized he was only joking. She fumed, nonetheless.
"I'd not report that part of it to the general, were I you, Captain." Richard said.
Cara sank back down on the ground. "Not if Brass Buttons, here, values his ribs," she muttered.

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Richard chuckled. "I let you--"
Kahlan kissed him to shut him up. Cara saw and rolled her eyes.

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Kahlan plunked the empty cup down on the sill and peered out as she caught her breath again.
Richard was sitting on the ground just outside, his arms hooked around his knees, his hands clasped.
"Hi there," he said with a smile.
Cara, sitting right beside him, gazed up without emotion. "I see you're up."
Cara turned to Richard. "Should we show her where she can find the table?"
Richard shrugged. "If she gets hungry, she'll come out of the bedroom and find it.
Kahlan threw the cup at him, hoping to wipe the smirk off his face. He caught the cup.
"Well, glad to see your arm works," he said. "You can cut your own bread." When she started to protest, he said, "It's only fair. Cara baked it. Th least you can do is cut it."
Kahlan's mouth fell open. "Cara baked bread?"
"Lord Rahl taught me," Cara said. "I wanted bread with my stew, real bread, and he told me that if I wanted bread, I would have to learn to make it. It was easy, really. A little like walking to the window. But I was much more good-natured about it, and didn't throw anything at him."

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Cara had her own room opposite theirs. Once up and about, Kahlan was surprised to find that Cara had a collection of rocks. Cara bristled at the term "collection", and asserted that there were there as defensive weapons, should they be attacked and trapped in the house. Kahlan found the rocks--all different colors--suspiciously pretty. Cara insisted they were deadly.

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She let out a little groan when she saw that they were dead.
"What's the matter?" Cara asked as she walked in lugging a full bucket. She came over to see the fish.
"Looks like they starved," Kahlan told her.
"You didn't name them, did you?" Richard asked. "I told you not to name them because they would die after a time. I warned you not to let yourself get emotionally attached when it can only come to no good end."
"Cara named one."
"Did not," Cara protested. "I was just trying to show you which one I was talking about, that's all."

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"Once she was back out in the main room, Kahlan could hear Cara splashing in the tub. "Need anything, Cara?" she called out.
"No, I'm fine," Cara called from her room. "This feels so good! I think there's enough dirt in this water to plant potatoes."
Kahlan laughed knowingly.

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"I love you too, Cara." He winked at her. "Take good care of both of you until I'm back."
"I will, Lord Rahl. You have my word as Mord-Sith."
He gave her a crooked smile. "I have your word as Cara."
And then he was gone.
"I love you too, Lord Rahl," Cara whispered to the empty doorway. Kahlan and Cara ran into the main room and stood in the doorway watching him running across the meadow.
Cara cupped her hands around her mouth. "I love you too, Lord Rahl," she shouted.

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"Mother Confessor, you must not do that."
"Why not?"
Cara's blue eyes gleamed with menace. "You must leave half for me."

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"It's my way," the man muttered under his breath to her back. "Creator had no say in it." - spoken by a man in Ripply. He took care of Richard's and Nicci's horses.

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"You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods," Kahlan said in a level tone. "I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime." -spoken by Kahlan to Verna.

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"It's simple. I plan on killing every Imperial Order man, woman and child until I get to the very last one left alive, and then if she doesn't give him back, I'm going to kill her." -spoken by Kahlan to Zedd.

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For a moment no one moved; then a fellow in the midst of the mob thrust his hand into his pocket and felt around. "My gold. It's gone."
Zedd rolled his eyes. "No, no, no. I said the most precious, the most dear. That which you pride above all else."
Everyone stood a moment, confused. Then a few eyebrows went up in alarm. Another man suddenly thrust his hand into his pocket and felt around, eyes wide in fright. He moaned and then fainted. The ones near by drew back from him. Soon others were putting their hands in their pockets, cautiously feeling around. There were more moans and wails, and soon all the men were grabbing at their crotches in a panic. Zedd smiled in satisfaction. Pandemonium broke out among the mob. Men were jumping up and down, crying, grabbing at themselves, running around in little circles, asking for help, falling on the ground, and sobbing.

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Kahlan realized then that Cara was wrapped in a blanket that was open in the front enough to reveal that she was naked underneath. There was a dark mark on the upper half of her breast. There were a few more, but faint. Kahlan had seen Cara naked, and didn't recall there being any such mark on her. In fact, except for her scars, her body was exasperatingly perfect.
Frowing, Kahlan gestured. "Cara, what's that there?"
Cara glanced down and then threw the blanket closed.
"It's, I mean, well, it's...just a bruise."
A love bruise--from a man's mouth.
"Is Benjamin over there in your tent with you?"
Cara got to her bare feet. "Mother Confessor, you are still half asleep and having dreams. Go back to sleep."

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Kahlan took Rikka's arm and pulled her close. "Rikka, we have a lot of men here, and few woman. This is a dance. Get out there and dance."
"What? Are you out of your--"
Kahlan shoved her onto the dance floor.

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Kahlan turned back to Cara. "Cara, Benjamin, here, needs a partner for a dance. How about you? Please? Do it for me?"
Cara cleared her throat. "Well, all right. For you, then, Mother Confessor."
"And don't break his ribs, or anything. We have need of his talents."
Cara scowled back over her shoulder as a smiling Benjamin led her away.

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"Is 'Benjamin' General Meiffert's first name?"
Had Cara been wearing her red leather, her face would have matched it. As it was, her dark scowl matched the brown leather she had on.
"You know it is."
A smile grew on Kahlan's lips. "I do now."

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"No," she said, casting a cool glare at Verna and Kahlan, each of whom used a hand to hold her shoulders down. She casually crossed her ankles. "I just thought you could handle it, so I decided to take a nap."

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"Well," Cara said over her shoulder after they had ridden for a time through the hushed expanse of countryside, "we do this every night for a year of two, and that should just about wipe them all out."

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General Meiffert's face split with a grin. "None, Mother Confessor. Can you believe it? With the Creator's help, they all came back."
"I don't recall the Creator wielding a sword with us," Cara said.

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Kahlan drew her face into a peevish scowl. "How old are you, Warren?"
He looked surprised by the question. "I turned one hundred fifty eight not long ago."

"That explains it," Cara griped, starting off down the hill. "Stop looking so young and innocent all the time, Warren. It's just plain irritating."

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"Well, I can't really think of--"
Just then, Warren strode in. 'Just got a report from over in the Drun Valley. Our lucky day--no activity, as we expected."
He stopped dead in his tracks, his hand still holding the door level, looking from Kahlan to Zedd and back again.
"What's the matter? What's going on? Why are you two looking at me like that?"
Verna came up behind Warren and gave him a shove into the lodge. "Go on, go on, get in there. Close the door. What's the matter with you? It's freezing out there."
Verna huffed and shut the door herself. When she turned around and saw Zedd and Kahlan, she backed a step.
"Verna, Warren," Zedd said in a honeyed voice, "come on in, won't you?"
Verna scowled. "What are you two scheming and grinning at?"
"Well," Zedd drawled as he winked at Kahlan, "the Mother Confessor and I were just discussing the big event."
Verna's scowl darkened as she leaned in. "What big event? I've heard nothing about any big event."
Even Warren, rarely given to scowling, was scowling now. "That's right. What big event?"
"Your wedding," Zedd said.

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Richard - "Although, lately, she has been causing more trouble than help."
Cara - "Lord Rahl, I told you that wasn't my fault. I had nothing to do with it."
Richard - "You're the one who touched it."
Cara - "Well...how was I supposed to know?"
Richard - "I told you to leave it be, but you had to touch it."
Cara - "I couldn't very well just leave it, now could I?"
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Cara - "This is just great. The girl sounds like Lord Rahl. Now I'm going to have to listen to two of them."
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CHAINFIRE QUOTES:

"And the thing is, I felt things when he came into me -- and if you tell him this I'll kill you, I swear I will." - Cara
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"I don't know why you bothered going to all the trouble to save my life. We're going to die, you know." - Cara
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"You ought to marry Richard. You make a good pair. You are both crazy." - Victor
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"He doesn't look all that big." said Nicci.
"You did not say big, you said you wanted a steady horse that would not spook easily, one that had a fearless spirit." said Ishaq.
"I just assumed that such a horse would be big." replied Nicci.
"She's a crazy woman." grumbled Ishaq.
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"Tell them to think dark and violent thoughts." -- Nicci
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"It's easier to get answers by making people bleed." -- Rikka
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"Bags! That's it! Rikka, you're a genius! I could hug you!" exclaimed Zedd.
"I prefer to accept your adoration from afar." said Rikka.
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"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt him. I meant to kill him." said Cara.
"I like her. You can keep her." said Shota.
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"I want my life back!" -- Richard
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"Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitate when I was young." -- Cara
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"Night fog. Some kind of strange smoky fog drifted past them and made them go blind." said Nicci.
"Not just blind, but burst their eyes right in their sockets. It was a bloody mess. I quite enjoyed it." said Cara.
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"I don't care if you pull her intestines out an inch at a time, just get her to talk." -- Richard
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"And General, if my friend Cara doesn't leave here in the morning with a giddy grin, I'll gut you alive." -- Nicci
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"Well, bags, woman--" said Nathan.
"Did you teach him to talk like that? He never cursed like that before he spent time with you." said Ann.
"My goodness, no. Not me." said Zedd.
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