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Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1) QUOTES

Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1) QUOTES

1 " But besides all that, if ye ever have the power to make someone's dream come true and ye don't, then what kind of a selfish shite would ye be? "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

2 " A toast! Tae inks and sigils and straight razors, tae good bosses and wizards on lizards, tae outsmarting evil when ye can and kicking its arse when ye cannae do that, and tae distillers of fine spirits everywhere. Sláinte! "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

3 " Nigel went to Toronto on holiday and got his skull cracked by a hockey puck. "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

4 " Is that a thing selkies do, make ye pine?” [Their beauty is a defense. The idea is that humans won’t want to hurt them if they’re extraordinarily beautiful.] “Really? That seems like an epic misjudgment of humanity. "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

5 " It staggered me at times to think of how much money and cancer had flowed through that relatively small area, a metaphor for all of capitalism’s glories and evils. "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

6 " gods so rarely do anything tae us. Or for us "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

7 " He pulled up a news article with the headline Monsters Attack Village in Ukraine and pointed at it. “Someone "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

8 " On the side of the building at the north end of the row was a mural of a dark-bearded man in a woolly hat gazing down at a finch resting peacefully on his index finger, his hand curled into a gentle fist, and I found it an inspiring reminder that we should always consider the welfare of others and think of the smallest and weakest first. It was a modern look at Glasgow’s patron saint, St. Mungo, painted by an Australian artist. "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

9 " [I have to do some research.] “Fine, but can ye no just use the Internet?” Buck asked. [What do you know about that?] “I’ve . . . heard of it.” [I can use it for lots of things, sure. But there are people who can find what you need faster than an old man pecking around a search engine.] “Yeah? Who?” [Librarians.] “Ohhh, aye. I’ve heard o’ them too. They always know where the secret room is with the treasure in it. They like tae go plumbing in there, if ye know what I mean.” [I don’t know what stories you’ve been hearing in Tír na nÓg, but that’s not what a librarian does. And neither do plumbers.] "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

10 " Whenever someone shoulders past me or cuts me off, I feel like rooting for them instead of getting angry, and I hope they’re able to make it to the toilet before disaster strikes. I cheer for the steadfastness of their sphincters and wish them long life and clean underwear. People think I am patient, but not really; I just get it. We are ruled by our bladders and bowels. "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

11 " How much magic and wonder was missed while people were distracted by something flickering on their screens? "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

12 " No a word 'bout my nails, Al. Or anything. This situation here is only because I love ma wee brother and need tae convince his bride's family that I'm totally normal and no involved with the occult, plus I'm pretending that ma uterus desperately wants a ten-month lease from some man's seed but I'm just too busy at the moment, awright? "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

13 " We are ruled by our bladders and bowels. "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

14 " The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

15 " I subscribe to a theory that answers cannot hide from us forever if we seek them long enough. "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

16 " We have a box of salt in there distilled from the tears of men who try to harass us. "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

17 " Like clowns and cauliflower. "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)

18 " After all, there is nothing so deadly, so ultimately terminal, as being alive. "

― Kevin Hearne , Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)