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Magnus Flyte QUOTES

1 " Men were ridiculous, in all cultures and across time. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

2 " Eleanor was all apologies, but Sarah enjoyed seeing a bit more of the Czech countryside. You probably couldn't say that you had really seen a country if all you had seen was a city or two. You had to see where the food was grown, what the riverbanks looked like, and what the highway manners of the inhabitants were. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

3 " History should be studied but not worshipped. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

4 " Rules of science.” Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. “And what are those? We don’t even know how this works.” He pointed to his head. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

5 " Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

6 " Prague. Praha. The name actually meant “threshold”. Pollina had said the city was a portal between the life of the good and … the other. A city of dark magic, Alessandro had called it. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

7 " Love makes people so stupid. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

8 " Prague is a threshold.”
“A threshold?”
“Yes. Between the life of good and … the other.”
Sarah thought of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. “I’m not going to have to fight demons, am I? "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

9 " Isn’t it funny that only twenty years ago, they were down there cowering in terror that we trigger-happy, decadent, capitalist Americans would go nuclear on them any minute? Little did they know our secret weapon was Starbucks. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

10 " Sometimes it was just better to blow shit up. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

11 " Sarah felt about great sex the way St. George felt about slaying dragons... "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

12 " It wasn't enough to be alive. Everyone needed something to live for.
Or die for. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

13 " The cold war was over, but all the little games persisted. It was a good thing those puppets in the Middle East had been too busy grubbing around in their deserts to play any serious role in international espionage ... She took a calming moment to visualize the entire Arab world as a giant parking lot. Lovely. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

14 " What do you know that you’re not telling me?"
"I don’t know what you know, so I don’t know what you don’t know. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

15 " The city was in a panic, though a panic in Italy means most people still stand around coffee bars drinking espresso and Prosecco. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

16 " This place was just a pile of old stones. Pretty stones arranged in intriguing ways, but just old stones.
“And outdated wiring,” her father would have added. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

17 " Mark Twain said that, outside of Vienna, all coffee was merely liquid poverty," Sarah commented. "

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18 " Prayer. That was what people did when there was nothing else left to do. "

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19 " ...how strange and frightening and intoxicating life could be. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)

20 " Dig your nails deep enough into the back of a Soviet, and eventually you'll find a Russian. "

― Magnus Flyte , City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)