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21 " Do not mistake my courtesy for weakness. "
― Benedict Jacka , Forged (Alex Verus, #11)
22 " It wasn’t a passing shower but a steady drumbeat of water, the kind of rain that settles in, puts its feet up and makes it clear that it’s not going to leave. "
― Benedict Jacka , Hidden (Alex Verus, #5)
23 " Someone who’s amoral and selfish can be a threat to you, but they’re also a threat to everyone else, and that tends to limit how much time they can spend on you personally. But someone who believes in what he’s doing can convince other people that opposing you is the right thing to do. In the long run, that’s a lot more dangerous. "
― Benedict Jacka , Veiled (Alex Verus, #6)
24 " If this is how you guys run your ops,’ Kyle said, ‘I’m starting to seriously wonder how you’re still alive. "
― Benedict Jacka , Fallen (Alex Verus, #10)
25 " Power doesn’t need a purpose: Power is its own purpose. It is the only goal that has value in itself, because it is the means by which all other goals are achieved. "
― Benedict Jacka , Risen (Alex Verus, #12)
26 " It’s so easy to believe that today’s going to be the same as yesterday, and most of the time it is the same as yesterday, and so it just goes on, one day after another, blending into a comforting sameness. Until it stops. I "
― Benedict Jacka , Burned (Alex Verus, #7)
27 " It's the things with no price tag that ends up costing you the most. "
― Benedict Jacka , Bound (Alex Verus, #8)
28 " Tricking people who want to hurt or manipulate me? Something I’m good at. Getting people to like and trust me? Something I’m bad at. "
29 " Somehow, though, neither her clothes nor her features seemed to matter—they were the adornments of a painting or a picture, not the real thing. What made her so captivating was something else, not so easily named: the way she moved, the glance of her eyes, the manner and sound and form. All I wanted to do was sit and gape. If I’d let myself fall into her eyes, I think an army of constructs could have battered down the door and I wouldn’t have noticed. "
― Benedict Jacka , Cursed (Alex Verus, #2)
30 " If there’s one thing all diviners share, it’s curiosity. We really can’t help it; it’s just part of who we are. If you dug out a tunnel somewhere in the wilderness a thousand miles from anywhere and hung a sign on it saying, Warning, this leads to the Temple of Horrendous Doom. Do not enter, ever. No, not even then, you’d get back from lunch to find a diviner already inside and two more about to go in. Come to think about it, that might explain why there are so few of us. "
― Benedict Jacka , Fated (Alex Verus, #1)
31 " The noise makes your heart jump, but hearing a sniper bullet is a good thing. The bullet outruns the sound wave; if it’s on target, it kills you before you ever hear the sound of the shot. "
32 " Congrats, you’ve just had your first assassination attempt. "
33 " I suppose I should be grateful there isn’t any slash fiction. On second thoughts, I’m not going to look too closely just in case there is. "
― Benedict Jacka , Chosen (Alex Verus, #4)
34 " I once read an article which made the argument that modern Western schools have a good deal in common with modern prisons, and I’ve always thought it was pretty accurate. With both schools and prisons, the ones running the system have a very simple set of priorities for their inmates: they want them to stay on the premises, they want them to stay healthy and watered and fed, and they want them not to be gratuitously violent in a way that’ll draw public attention. "
35 " she’d learned to bring the kinds of things he asked for. Which, apparently, mostly consisted of tea, good food and high explosives. "
36 " Richard is a far worse enemy to me than you will ever be. If I were in a room with you, Richard and a gun with two bullets, I'd shoot Richard twice. "
37 " I've been waiting for this a long time."-Martin "Let me guess that you're wishing for your IQ to break double figures?"- Alex V. "
― Benedict Jacka
38 " I suppose I’m . . . just less interested in the far future? The present seems more important. "
39 " Russell Square is one of the odder areas of London. "
40 " don’t want to spend my afternoon picking you off the pavement. "