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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 38m

The Hands of the Emperor
Chapter 28

Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 38m

And the centre of every gaze and every mind and every subtle line, that hundredth and last Emperor of Astandalas whom Cliopher loved.

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 4h

The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul
Chapter 14

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Pali thought over what he had said, what she had said, and what she could tell Jullanar of the encounter, and found herself more and more ... guilty.
She did not like feeling guilty, and she did not like that she had a day’s walk to the garrison to dwell on her emotions.

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 7h

Derring-Do for Beginners
Chapter 27: In Which Jullanar and Damian Find Something

Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 7h

“How did you come to be here?”
Fitzroy had fallen out of the sky. If she could not tell him, then who?
“I wanted to have an adventure,” she said simply. “I wanted to be someone who could have an adventure.”

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 12h

The Warrior of the Third Veil
Chapter 3

Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 12h

With a curious yearning for something she could not name to herself, Sardeet flipped the dagger accurately into the centre of the target.
“We are of the desert,” she said to the young man, who was gawping as if she’d struck him in his heart, and swung back up on her horse. “We do not miss.”

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 16h

The Hands of the Emperor
Chapter 41

Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 16h

His Radiancy said very softly, “If ever I may effect the release of Fitzroy Angursell, madam, it shall be on the condition he write a song about you. You have said your piece: go now, and find what peace you can.”

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 20h

Plum Duff
Chapter 8

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The Lady’s Eve: shortest day of the year, when the Dark pressed close. We would start a dozen days of celebrations and church services tomorrow to do our part fighting back against the forces of death and destruction.
Usually this was entirely metaphorical.
Usually.

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 1d

Plum Duff
Chapter 15

Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 1d

“Jemis, you died and came back to life with messages from the Other Side. Even a unicorn is not quite so astonishing as that.”
“But you were the one who called me back.”

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 1d

The Game of Courts
Chapter 7

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Really, no one should be surprised. It was simply sensible to ensure one was in good relations with the Emperor’s favourite. Especially when no one else had figured out that he was, yet.

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 1d

Whiskeyjack
Chapter 37: The Last Will and Testament of Benneret Buchance

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To Major Jakory Greenwing, in memory of the wife beloved to both of us and to the honour of the son whom we both love dearly: fifty thousand bees, to be used as Jemis Greenwing directs for the restoration of his good name and the subsequent exhumation and re-internment of his remains.

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 1d

Féonie and the Islander Regalia
Chapter 1

Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 1d

She had learned later that Ser Rhodin had spoken to Lady a’Nyura’s new husband, who sent Féonie a written apology and a large sum of money, and then promptly retired to his country estate, apparently permanently.

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 1d

At the Feet of the Sun
Bonus Chapters: Chapter 1

Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 1d

“Right then,” he said briskly, smiling at them with what he hoped was convincing cheerfulness. “I am presuming that I am more or less married to my job, in that case? Please tell me I do something interesting.”

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 1d

In the Company of Gentlemen
Chapter 1

Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 1d

“Domina Black has agreed to fence with me. She’s, uh, really good. I haven’t fenced with her before, though, so, uh.”

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Victoria Goddard Quote Bot @victoriagoddardbot.bsky.social · 2d

The Hands of the Emperor
Chapter 4