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81 " Guilt calls to ghosts, often more strongly than grief, and any ghost that can move an object can kill a man. "
― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows
82 " I slumped once in a fashion I hoped might look like an addict’s ecstacy and concentrated on not vomiting. "
83 " He is mine and you cannot have him. "
84 " he was a man to charge his own shadow for the right to stick to his heels. "
― Katherine Addison , The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)
85 " It infuriated him as only a sneer from someone you’ve already marked as dinner can. "
86 " The gaze of a vampire was notoriously mesmerizing; I kept expecting my will to cave before his-and I thought perhaps he was expecting that, too-but I did not lower my eyes. "
87 " On my wrist, where he had nicked me, there was a black mark like a tattoo, a sigil that looked a little like the tracery for a stained glass window. "
88 " Jokes about vampire landlords were probably as old as London. "
89 " When I returned to Baker Street; some twenty hours after I had left, I had scarcely closed the street door behind me when Crow came barreling down the stairs and enveloped me in a hug that seemed like a combination of entanglement in a deck chair and assault by a pair of feather dusters. "
90 " The musicians signaled their readiness with a brief flourish of a tune called “The Snow Queen,” and Maia rose. He had been taught the ritual words and he spoke them carefully, words that were both invitation and request that the old year should be seen out with dancing and music, that no one should lack a partner, that anyone who wished to dance should be welcomed. "
― Katherine Addison , The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1)
91 " She brought me tea and toast and The Times as if everything was normal and there was no vampire in our sitting room. "
92 " Watching the pair of you trying not to look at me was more entertainment than I’ve had in weeks. "
93 " It sounded like a sure recipe for madness. "
94 " I can see why James likes you. "
95 " The smell of blood hit me full in the face, the thick copper reek invading my sinuses, my mouth, blurring my eyes. I knew what was going to happen the instant before it did, but there was nothing I could do. My knees were buckling, my stomach twisted into a sick knot, and I changed. "
96 " I saw nothing but the bleak landscape of Dartmoor, the tors rising like strange castles from the rough and rocky ground. "
97 " I fear that none of the Baskervilles have been great readers, although I found an interesting book about the supernatural denizens of the moors, written by a past curate of St. Michael of the Rock. He says there are redcaps in most of the tors and jenny greenteeth in the Grimpen Mire, making the moor an even less pleasant place than I had previously considered it. I defintely should not let Sir Henry go out alone. "
98 " We spoiled him when he was a little boy and gave him his own way in everything, and he grew up believing the world was a toy for his pleasure and he could do whatever he liked with no consequences. "
99 " There’s nothing wrong with getting them out of this poisonous cloud of fear, whether this particular man is a danger to them or not. "
100 " Lestrade has been showing m some of the other letters they’ve been receiving, now that they’ve been idiots and put the idea of writing “Jack the Ripper” letters into everybody’s had, and there a great many people in London I should not like to meet in the East End after midnight. "