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Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?
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Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
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I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
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Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)
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Anyone can slay a dragon ...but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.
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Brian Andreas
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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury)
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We're going to knock those demons out and slay them with the power of Jesus. Hallelujah, can I get an amen?- Timmie
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Jeaniene Frost (Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, #1))
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This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
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J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit, or There and Back Again)
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The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.
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Heather Brewer (Ninth Grade Slays (The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, #2))
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Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.
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Holly Black (The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3))
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Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open.
"Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep.
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Rick Riordan (The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1))
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Andrea raised her hand. βThis is the hand that slapped Aunt B.β
βMaybe you should have it gold-plated.β
βHere, you can touch it, since youβre my best friend.
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Ilona Andrews (Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5))
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Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.
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Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1))
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Itβs your duty as my best friend to be outraged with me.β
βIβm outraged!β I snarled. βThat bastard!β
βThank you,β Andrea said.
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Ilona Andrews (Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5))
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Yes I can,β Curran snarled. βListen: this is me telling you what you will not do.β
I raised the cookbook and tapped him on the nose. Bad cat.
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Ilona Andrews (Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5))
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Help me, I canβt breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.
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Ilona Andrews (Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5))
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Stories have changed, my dear boy,β the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. βThere are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep overlapping and blur, your story is part of your sisterβs story is part of many other stories, and there in no telling where any of them may lead. Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act? Though perhaps it is a singular wolf who goes to such lengths as to dress as a grandmother to toy with its prey.
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Erin Morgenstern (The Night Circus)
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The Hero Path
We have not even to risk the adventure alone
for the heroes of all time have gone before us.
The labyrinth is thoroughly known ...
we have only to follow the thread of the hero path.
And where we had thought to find an abomination
we shall find a God.
And where we had thought to slay another
we shall slay ourselves.
Where we had thought to travel outwards
we shall come to the center of our own existence.
And where we had thought to be alone
we shall be with all the world.
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Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of.
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Colleen Houck
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Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked.
"Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it."
Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall.
The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman.
He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack.
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Ilona Andrews (Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5))
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Are you sure you know where you're going?" Andrea frowned.
"Would you like me to pull over and ask that bamboo for directions?"
"I don't know, do you think it will answer?"
We peered at the bamboo.
"I think it looks suspicious," Andrea said.
"Maybe there is a heffalump hiding in it."
Andrea stared at me.
"You know, heffalump? From Pooh Bear?"
"Where do you even get this shit?
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Ilona Andrews (Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5))
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Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!"
A cold voice answered: 'Come not between the NazgΓ»l and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye."
A sword rang as it was drawn. "Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may."
"Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!"
Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. "But no living man am I!
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J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)