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21 " All right. I do not think she will attack, though. She is a nice inhuman." "You mean nonhuman. Inhuman is an adjective," I said, as I rose from the lawn and padded softly around the left side of the house to the backyard. "Hey, I’m not a native speaker. Give me a break. "
― Kevin Hearne , Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1)
22 " Now, I will be the first to admit that human life was not worth much to my generation in the Iron Age, but Flidais and her kind are forever rooted in Bronze Age morality, which goes something like this: If it pleases me, then it is good and I want more; If it displeases me, then it must be destroyed as soon as possible, but preferably in a way that enhances my reputation so that I can achieve immortality in the songs of bards. "
23 " Helgarson won’t tell me, but it must have been bad. His fangs pop out if you just say ‘Thor’ aloud, and he hunts carpenters simply because they use hammers. "
24 " Being immortal did not make me invincible. Look at what the Bacchants did to that poor Orpheus fella. "
25 " With dogs you just go up and smell their asses and you know where you stand. It’s so much easier. Why can’t humans do that? "
26 " It was one of those decisions you make when you have too much testosterone bubbling around in your system, or when you’ve been raised in a culture of ridiculous machismo, as I was. "
27 " You haven’t lived until you’ve seen an Irish wolfhound parading around in rhinestone-studded gold lamé. "
28 " You mean nonhuman. Inhuman is an adjective, I said, as I rose from the lawn and padded softly around the left side of the house to the backyard. "
29 " It had been a long time since I’d felt any desire to truly inflict pain upon another person. I tend to take the long view on dealing with irritating people—as in, I’m going to outlive whoever irritates me, so the problem will eventually go away. I had privately changed “This, too, shall pass” into “You, too, shall die,” and it helped me avoid all sorts of conflict. "
30 " So after I killed him and stowed his body next to the doe, I sampled his smoothie concoction in the parking lot and found it to be quite delicious. "
31 " He could focus my attention on how perfectly sublime life can be at times. Such moments are ephemeral, and without his guidance I might have missed many of them, working so hard to get somewhere that I would fail to recognize when I had arrived. "
32 " I knew it would annoy her. She’d deliberately tried to provoke me, and one cannot sass me with impunity. "
33 " If it pleases me, then it is good and I want more; If it displeases me, then it must be destroyed as soon as possible, but preferably in a way that enhances my reputation so that I can achieve immortality in the songs of bards. "
34 " Cunning is better than running. "
35 " Two days ago she watched me kill someone, and she offered me her backyard as a place to hide the body.” “Truly?” Magnusson raised his eyebrows in surprise. “That’s a fine woman. "
36 " My dad's idea of bonding was throwing me in the tar pits to teach me a lesson, though I'm not sure what the lesson was, except to stay the hell away from Da. "
37 " Great. What if she decides to kill me?” “That will test our bargain quite severely,” the Morrigan replied with a smirk. “Morrigan?” “Relax. We have a bargain. But have the good grace to pretend to be dead if she decides to kill you.” “What if she decides to set me on fire and watch me burn?” “Then that’s going to hurt. Scream all you want, but turn it off at some point and she’ll figure you for dead. "
38 " Are you telling me you're lawyer is a bloodsucking vampire? "
39 " When you’re in the middle of a killing field and the fucking Chooser of the Slain tells you to do something, you do it "
40 " I thought Sundays were supposed to be relaxing. As a male citizen of America, I’m entitled on Sundays to watch athletic men in tight uniforms ritualistically invade one another’s territory, and while they’re resting I get to be bombarded with commercials about trucks, pizza, beer, and financial services. That’s how it’s supposed to be; that’s the American dream. "