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City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1) QUOTES

City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1) 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 " ...how strange and frightening and intoxicating life could be. "

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

18 " 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)

19 " Charlotte Yates loved humanity with all her heart, but she really had to draw the line at individuals. For the most part they were incredibly stupid, clumsy, selfish, and criminally shortsighted. Look, for instance, at who they voted for. "

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

20 " You see de white gown she wears, richly embroidered, showing de family’s wealth and influence,” said Daphne authoritatively. “De red rose in her hair symbolizes her Spanish ancestry. De prayer book in her left hand to display de Catholic allegiance.”
“What does the dog symbolize?” Sarah asked. Daphne blinked at her for a moment.
“De dog is just a dog,” she said, finally. "

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