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Category: Tom Holt

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don’t and haven’t, but that’s my problem.

Problem, Know, You

…[She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite sitting-place) and chanced to be able to remember when she had seen them and where they had been going, it was simply a tribute to her keen powers of observation and recall. Conscious spying was beneath her altogether.

gossip, intrusive, observation, powers-of-observation, spying

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms – if you don’t know how to do it properly, it’s best not to try.

There comes a time when a man must stand up and do what he knows is Wrong.

man, stand-up, wrong

He believes it’s time to redesign Evil from the ground up; to face the challenges and opportunities of a diverse, rapidly changing society.“He’s thinking of calling it,” said Miss Gold, “New Evil.

Mr Winckler clapped his hands together. “Evil, as personified by me. Meet the new Dark Lord. But you can call me Albert.

He turned and gave the Dark Elf a nasty look. “They can do that,” he said, “mess with your head, using arcane mind control techniques. Well-known fact.”The Dark Elf sniggered. “I wish,” he said. “Sadly, no. You’re thinking of journalism, which is slightly different.

If the Good Lord had intended us to crawl, he’d have given us a hundred legs and an exosqueleton.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

beauty, illusion, love

{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells,

emmeline-aka-lucia-lucas-pillson, laugh, laughter

There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged bladder. The world slows down, the focus sharpens, the brain comes back on line. Huge nebulous difficulties prove on close calm examination to be merely cloud giants.

bladder, brain, clarity, pee, problems, toilet

Most thoughtful,”…[he said] politely. This cheerfulness was ambiguous, Had she determined to ignore …[the] coup entirely–an established tactic, most irritating to the innovator but hard to sustain over long periods of time–or had she already evolved her counter-strategy?

ambiguous, counter-strategy, sarcasm, tactics