So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.
Garth NixHe was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a necromancer's bells! Apart from that, he was quite handsome, which was another black mark as far as she was concerned.
Garth NixWhy, Yrael?โ it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. โWhy?โ โLife,โ said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. โFish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.
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