“Then you have no more wish to rule? The country needs you now more than ever.”
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She shook her head. “I’ve been crushed under the weight of power all my life. I think I’m going to enjoy missing it.” She laughed at the lightness with which she dismissed royal power. Every moment was a surprise, these days. She hoped that that feeling would never end.
Source: Ventus (2000), Chapter 45 (p. 655)
Karl Schroeder
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Axel shrugged. “That statement probably applies to every second I’ve spent on this blasted world.”
Source: Ventus (2000), Chapter 44 (p. 632)
“What if they don’t surrender?”
Karl Schroeder
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“My Lady,” he said, “you never ask that question after you’ve gone to war.”
Source: Ventus (2000), Chapter 41 (p. 599)
Karl Schroeder
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Ventus
“Ah! That phrase is Male for ‘I’m afraid to.’”
Source: Ventus (2000), Chapter 40 (p. 586)
“Humans become violent when they feel their interest are threatened.”
Karl Schroeder
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Ventus
Galas scowled. “They were never threatened! Parliament is a rumor mill staffed by trough-fed clods who abuse the tongue of their birth every time they open their mouths. They all gabble at once and confuse one another mightily, and when this confusion is committed to paper they refer to it as ‘policy.’”
Source: Ventus (2000), Chapter 17 (p. 246)
“Just because something is convincing, that does not make it true. It is merely convincing.”
Karl Schroeder
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Source: Ventus (2000), Chapter 15 (p. 227)
