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61 " Give me back to us! "
― Kate Griffin , The Glass God (Magicals Anonymous, #2)
62 " Are you really going to ask such inane questions all the time? Mystic bloody forces; just accept them and cope! "
― Kate Griffin , A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1)
63 " You are deliberately being cryptic,” she exclaimed. “Why?” “Because I don’t like you. "
64 " We arethe scylla sisters.We loveeach otherso muchthough sometimes it hurtsand sometimes it is joyand alwaystogether.We love each other.Because no one else will. "
65 " I’ve been reading up on management speak, and I’m guessing that where you say, 'somewhat clouded', what you really mean is 'totally down the pan and in the shit'? "
66 " Sharon spoke slowly and carefully. It was, she’d found, the best way to create an illusion of shamanly wisdom, as people often mistook cautious speech for being thoughtful instead of panic-struck. "
67 " We burn because of the beauty in the burning, because life is precious, extraordinary, and we would live as if we were on fire with the brightness of it. "
― Kate Griffin , The Midnight Mayor (Matthew Swift, #2)
68 " the detritus of left-over life that makes magic what it is, for life is magic, magic is life, the left-over life we don’t even notice we’re living; "
69 " The good must be merciful, even if that mercy to the damned is merely in a quick dispatch. "
70 " Even if you’ve no idea where you’re going, you have to look like you do. It’s what keeps the locals different from the strangers. "
71 " Ain’t no such thing as a god… just an idea with a purpose, that’s all, and usually some bloody stupid bloody naïve purpose made up by people what ain’t got the brains to figure shit out for themselves. "
72 " Sharon had read a lot of books on the subject of human society and psychology, and after a great deal about social identity and pack spirit, had taken away this simple conclusion: It is far better to talk bollocks at great length and feel okay about it, than to talk about nothing at all and end up killing people. "
73 " Coincidence is usually mentioned only when something good happens. Whenever it’s something bad, it’s easier to blame someone, something. "
74 " She would have liked a drink, but staying awake was proving a challenge and somehow, she felt, as deputy Midnight Mayor she was still on duty. So she cradled an orange juice, whose contents were two parts ice to five parts acid to one part remnant of the colour orange, and trod on her own toes under the table in an effort to remain awake. "
75 " The mind forgets pain, the physical sensation of pain. It doesn’t forget terror. "
76 " all paperwork is, pardon my language, Ms Li, pestilential putrefaction designed to confound the real work of society in a quagmire of bullshit? "
77 " It was not the flesh we would have chosen, but I had long since given up dreams of resembling anyone from the movies and, with the pragmatism of the perfectly average, come to realise that this was me and that was fine. "
78 " I mean, you may not look like much, but on paper you’re really cool until people meet you! "
― Kate Griffin , The Minority Council (Matthew Swift, #4)
79 " I train myself to think only in words, neat, linear structures, passages with correct punctuation that can define a train of reasoning, understanding – nothing left to chance. I "
80 " Cynics call it fate, romantics call it destiny, lawyers call it malign intent. No one uses the word “coincidence”. "