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41 " I’m not about to punish anyone for being in love. "
― Katherine Addison , The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)
42 " They were very good, soft rolls stuffed with ham and tangy white cheese and then heated just enough to make the rolls crispy on the outside and to melt the cheese on the inside. "
43 " The air tasted of fear and rage and something even darker, uglier, something like the smell of her blood on the little man’s hands. "
― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows
44 " A dog with a bone was nothing compared to Crow with an unanswered question, and I had a lively appreciation for the feelings of the bone. "
45 " He asked because he truly wanted to know, and she responded with the pleasure people always feel when asked sincerely about their lives. "
46 " The day had been a dreary one, and although it was not yet seven, a dense, dazzling fog that turned London into a city of ghosts. "
47 " The grounds of Pondichierry Lodge looked as though a thousand moles had tunneled for a thousand days and then, unsatisfied, had tunneled for a thousand more. "
48 " Shepherds watch over their flocks. And angels watch over shepherds. "
49 " Cerberus automata do not track by scent. They track the psychic residue that human beings leave on everything they touch. This makes them particularly formidable, for while you may disguise your scent or cross your trail, you cannot disguise your psyche. "
50 " It’s not that he’s a stupid man-he’s brighter than Gregson, for one-but he comes up with a theory and then moves the facts around to match it. The problem is that he’s so frequently correct, he’s gotten out of the habit of imagining that he could be wrong. "
51 " In the window of the flat above a tobacconist, a red lamp told the senasation seekers and the addicts where to find the vampires. "
52 " I have had many names. Perhaps you will call Anuvadaka? It means ‘translator’, which was my job. "
53 " until we thought to ask a prisoner why the Nazhmorhathveras call the Anmur’theileian ‘Memory of Death.’ We had thought”—and he used the plural, with a gesture that seemed to encompass generations of knights and foot soldiers fighting and dying far from home—“that they named it that for the uncounted Nazhmorhathvereise dead. "
― Katherine Addison , The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1)
54 " I know who Mr. Small was, for there were very few English prisoners, and especially not Englishmen imprisoned for killing for killing an Indian man-but he and Dost Akbar had killed the man by feeding on him, which I have noticed the British find particularly loathsome. "
55 " I think perhaps all of the Fallen are insane-it’s just that some of them stay rational, such as the Fallen of Afghanistan who can fight with the partisans. They can still make treaties. But they ae still irrationally bent on destruction and revenge. "
56 " I do hold grudges, even though I shouldn’t. "
57 " We are very bad at making choices. It is a kindness of our Maker to remove that choice from our remit. "
58 " Like almost all of your people, police officers don’t often look up. And I have learned to navigate London in the five years we have stayed here. It is not too different from the jungle in its own way. "
59 " but she was as close-mouthed as a turtle. "
60 " He made no secret of the fact that his three friends-and the Agra treasure-came first with him. And he was very angry with me for killing Batholomew Sholto. "