Sweep In Peace Quotes
"Life was no longer a challenge. He was so mercilessly bored."
"Nobody told him what to do anymore. Nobody had the right to berate him."
"If his old mentor still ran things, he would have caught heat for this little outing."
"A pale star detached itself from its neighbors, curved over the sky, and rained down in a shower of pale glow onto the balcony."
"Rest in peace, Spider," he murmured before the light swallowed him whole.
"I wanted a clear sky. Maybe it would let up tomorrow. A girl could hope."
"Her Grace, Caldenia ka ret Magren, was indeed high society, except she preferred world domination to friendly brunches and mass murder to charity."
"The point, my dear, is that our lives are beginning to feel dreadfully dull."
"Elegance is never ostentatious, and there is nothing more bourgeois than covering everything in gold. It screams that one has too much money and too little taste."
"The sky is the limit… I closed my eyes and opened my mind."
"You are now a guest of my inn. Your safety is my utmost priority."
"If they damage the inn, I want them to pay for the damages."
"The privacy of my guests is sacred, and I am meant to remain as a neutral party."
"I can make sure the peace delegates have the softest linens and the most tranquil of rooms, but I have no power to influence them."
"I never bothered too much with the laws of physics anyway."
"The Khanum is a great general; she plans their wars and their battles."
"On Earth we say that history is written by the winners."
"I’ve lost men, I’ve lost family, and I don’t intend to lose anyone else."
"If I have to make peace with the Horde, so be it."
"The inn will serve the dinner following your commands."
"Like a primitive savage who sets out to tame the wilderness armed with nothing but a knife and his indomitable will, I will persevere."
"Would you rather be a hero in charge of your own destiny or a martyr wallowing in self-pity?"
"I shall rise like a bird of prey upon the current of the wind, my talons raised for the kill, and I shall strike true."
"Please don’t try to intimidate my dog," I said.
"I’m counting on it. To put it plainly, I’m the planner," George said.
"Jack is the killer," George continued. "He knows other killers, he understands them, and if necessary, he will remove a physical threat before it has a chance to cause any damage."
"I broke a plate, and it refuses to let me have another one!" Orro snarled.
"I know," I said. "But you have to learn to work with him."
"The inn is my domain," I said. "Here, I am supreme."
"Are you going to let me go?" Jack asked quietly. "I’m thinking about it."
"I’m an innkeeper. I don’t require a security team."
"This is an abomination against nature." Hardwir let go of the mangled hood.
"Does it seem okay to you that you are continuously coming here and accusing me of random things just because you don’t like me?"
"An appearance of propriety must be maintained and any hint of favoritism is to be avoided at all costs."
"I once told you to call on me. I meant it. Anytime you require it, I will be your shield."
"We live within them, we use them, but even we, the innkeepers, are unsure about why they function the way they do."
"We know when the inn extends into a particular world, and after a while we can access it, but we can’t make the inn grow a branch to the place of our choosing."
"Most inns instinctively seek out Baha-char. That’s usually the first world that opens to us."
"People sometimes say that the seed of the very first inn was brought to us from Baha-char and that all its descendants instinctively seek the connection to their homeland the way salmon travel hundreds of miles to reach their spawning grounds."
"I can tell you that my father always told me that creating a door to an alternative dimension like that could not be done. It would collapse the inn."
"If you get caught, there will be hell to pay."
"I don’t want to use the technology at my disposal for personal reasons."
"You’re asking me to leave the inn while it’s full of guests."
"Our home world. If he uses any of the gadgets provided to us by the Arbitrator Office, he can be tracked. They’ll have his ass."
"So you want me to endanger my guests by leaving the inn and escort you on a mission that could potentially cause you to be sanctioned, derailing the peace talks and my payment and ruining the reputation of this inn."
"As matters stand now, I do not believe the peace talks will succeed."
"The otrokars acknowledge that a single vampire is a more rounded warrior; however, they have an unshakable faith in their own supremacy through the use of genetic specialization."
"They believe he is unbeatable with a sword. As long as he reigns supreme, he makes them feel invincible."
"To get them to cooperate and work together, both sides must be humbled."
"We are meant to live life to its fullest. We are meant to experience it all—sadness, disappointment, rage, kindness, joy, love."
"We are meant to test ourselves. It is painful and frightening, but this is what it means to be alive."
"Here I’m not a monster. Here I do not kill anyone. I’m at peace here."
"We, the human beings, are meant to live life to its fullest."
"You are hiding from life here. This isn’t peace. This is a slow, deliberate suicide."
"Take my hand and bring your sword. The universe is waiting."
"You can really find out a lot of weird stuff when you spend your day surfing Facebook."
"Nobody would adopt him. He would just sit there in that cage with his starry-sky eyes."
"She will hide and come out when she is ready."
"May the best House triumph over their opponents."
"Here’s hoping soap and hot water would wash today off."
"I pictured myself reaching into my mind, taking that thought out, and setting it aside."
"Someone moved unchecked in my inn, and I didn’t know how or why."
"You want to play games? Fine. I will find you and when I do, you won’t like what will follow."
"Our ancestors didn’t need weapons. They didn’t need armor. They had their teeth."
"In matters of diplomacy and love, one must strive for spontaneity. Doing the unexpected often gets you what you want."
"The universe is vast and we’re its greatest mystery."
"Explain to me how those sniveling worms have our best interests at heart while we are getting ready to spill our blood in their place."
"This rotation does nothing except drain our blood."
"Only a concerted offensive can end this war. We must throw all our might into it."
"You may be Marshals, but I'm the Bitch of Eskar. Do not make me show you how I earned my name."
"I'm going to pray for me, for this gathering, and most of all for you."
"Your passion does you credit, but take care. Do not permit your grief to allow you to be used."
"If you only knew the true price each of you is paying for the war, you would agree to end it."
"Everything you offer me is better than what I have now."
"We only serve the best to our honored guests."
"Everything I worked for, everything I stand for, is ruined."
"No amount of money will make this right. My professional integrity is compromised."
"It's been a long day for all of us. You must be tired."
"Both are humiliated. Both are indebted to me and the peace talks are in shambles. All part of the plan?"
"I examine my objective very carefully and I weigh everything I do against the benefits attaining that objective will bring."
"Everything that happened has been designed for its impact on you."
"To avoid murder, I will go so far as to endanger myself and my objective, provided that the level of risk to my goal is acceptable."
"I take no one’s life for granted—not yours, not Ruah’s, not even Beneger’s."
"You’re in the very center of it. You and the inn."
"I’ll do what I was hired to do. I gave my word. I won’t back out now, but I will no longer let myself be used."
"If one can be compassionate and merciless at once, he is that."
"It is a living being that you are ripping apart. It is dying by your hand, right there in front of you."
"In the sixth, you collapse finally, grateful that you survived or simply numb."
"Death from high-density beam bombardment takes point three seconds."
"Their resistance lasted but a few breaths, and despite our most valiant efforts, they couldn’t be saved."
"Desperation is a fire. It burns bright but it must have a chimney, an outlet."
"Endless battle. Endless war. Endless suffering."
"Don’t you have a crumb of conscience? Is there any drop of kindness in your soul, or is it all just cold dark greed?"
"We are a democracy. The men and women who are here are all distinguished warriors."
"Wilmos’s shop was an island of calm in the chaos of Baha-char."
"Soldiers aren’t born. They are made. Under the right conditions, most people can be forged into soldiers."
"War is a thing he does as naturally as you breathe."
"He wanted to know that he could stand shoulder to shoulder with the two people who sacrificed so much to bring him into this world."
"You want to be the best innkeeper you can be. He wants to be the best soldier he can be."
"I’m trying to figure out a way to explain it and not screw things up between the two of you."