123 Book Meme

Frogdancer has tagged me!

1. Pick up the nearest book. (Must be 123+ pages.)
2. Turn to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence, and post the next three sentences.
4 Tag 5 people.

So the nearest book is the one I'm currently reading, Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card.

"Kill me and you'll always wonder if I really sent out a message at all,"
said Petra.

"But at least I won't have to listen to your smug voice lying to me," said
Achilles. "That would almost be a consolation."

I've seen this one pretty much everywhere, so I won't tag anyone specific. If you haven't done this one yet then consider yourself tagged.