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Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1) QUOTES

Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1) QUOTES

1 " Go to sleep, dweller-baby. I’ll kill Elowin as soon as we find her.” He didn’t sound like he was kidding. Each word was low and laced with truth.

“Next time, just say like … sleep well, or something normal,” I said. “Not go to sleep, I’ll be murdering someone in no time. It doesn’t sound as comforting as you think it does. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

2 " She was smart like that, and lucky like that, and people loved the hell out of her. They didn’t love the hell out of me; they ran the hell away from me. It wasn’t like I was a bad person or anything, I just … had a lot of accidents. I didn’t mean accidents like I ate glue and then peed myself on a regular basis. I just tripped more than usual, and accidently set things on fire more than what would be considered ‘normal’. I got kicked out of the village school only one moon-cycle before graduation for accidently making one of the teachers bald. How do you accidently make someone bald? That’s a good question. All you really need is a bucket of warm tar to accidently toss onto the back of their head. How do you get a bucket of warm tar? You don’t go looking for it or anything—or at least I didn’t. It was just sitting on the road outside the school and I thought I should carry it inside to ask what it was. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

3 " I’m sick of them. I never want to see them again. Except Aros; he smells nice. And Rome; because he’s so strong I’m pretty sure not even Rau can get past him. I don’t need the others. Except Siret. I’m pretty sure he hates me, but he’s really good at catching me like just before I face-plant into something. But the others, I don’t need them. Not at all.” I paused, my brow furrowing, my mouth pursing, and then I quickly blurted, “Except Coen and Yael. Coen is really good at making decisions, and if I leave out Yael he’ll probably hunt me down and haunt me-”
“That's all of them,” Emmy interrupted smoothly. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

4 " You should stop,” Siret agreed, watching me with a smile that said you really shouldn’t stop.

“Seduction,” I agreed while pointing at him, my index finger extended and my thumb sticking up: my fingers were arrows and I was shooting Seduction at him.

“It needs to stop,” Aros insisted. “She might look like me, but I do not act like that.”

In fairness, I’d never seen Aros make little arrows with his fingers and try to shoot people with Seduction, but he really should look into it, I decided. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

5 " It’s your own fault, Will. What did I tell you about walking?” “That I should leave it to the experts, "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

6 " He dropped my hand, and I knew that he was moments away from kicking the door down like a crazy, deranged sol, so I quickly raised my fist and knocked. They all turned to stare at me, looking like I’d just stolen their favourite toy and ripped its head off. “What?” I asked defensively. “Just trying to be polite.” “We’re here to kill her,” Siret reminded me, his voice a frustrated groan. “Don’t see why we can’t kill her politely, "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

7 " Sorry I hit you. I thought you were going to keep talking, and I panicked. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

8 " Where’s the creativity, gods? I didn’t see why Death couldn’t have pink. Or purple. What if he liked sparkles? "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

9 " We won’t let you die, Willa.” I mimicked, brushing off my boy-clothes and shoving my hair out of my face. “We’ll just teleport you onto a platform in the sky, where you’re definitely going to die, while we wait in our little safety-cave. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

10 " They moved as a single unit of zero-fucks-given through the crowd. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

11 " A naked surprise is always a good surprise. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

12 " What?” I asked defensively. “Just trying to be polite.” “We’re here to kill her,” Siret reminded me, his voice a frustrated groan. “Don’t see why we can’t kill her politely,” I muttered back. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

13 " Meanwhile, I was pretty sure that he had just reached into my chest and pulled out my poor little dweller heart. Now it was laying somewhere behind us. In the dirt. Beating pathetically. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

14 " Yael, go over and get your hug so you can feel equal "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

15 " I never really believed Teacher Hardy’s theory. He ate sardines for lunch. It’s never good to trust a person who eats sardines. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

16 " I’d heard, once, that all the gods were defined by certain colours, but the only part of that particular lesson that had actually stuck with me had been the fact that Death’s colour was black. It just seemed so … predictable. Where’s the creativity, gods? I didn’t see why Death couldn’t have pink. Or purple. What if he liked sparkles? "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

17 " I gave him a surprised look, but he only met my eye stubbornly. Challenging me to argue with him. Well … I wasn’t going to argue with him before, but he challenged me, dammit. I opened my mouth, ready to shoot off some retort, but the cage chose that moment to lurch, and I tumbled sideways into Rome. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

18 " I just tripped more than usual, and accidently set things on fire more than what would be considered ‘normal’. I got kicked out of the village school only one moon-cycle before graduation for accidently making one of the teachers bald. How do you accidently make someone bald? That’s a good question. All you really need is a bucket of warm tar to accidently toss onto the back of their head. How do you get a bucket of warm tar? You don’t go looking for it or anything—or at least I didn’t. It was just sitting on the road outside the school and I thought I should carry it inside to ask what it was. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

19 " It wasn’t like I was a bad person or anything, I just … had a lot of accidents. I didn’t mean accidents like I ate glue and then peed myself on a regular basis. I just tripped more than usual, and accidently set things on fire more than what would be considered ‘normal’. "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

20 " Siret held up a hand and everyone knew that signal. Everyone except me, that was. When Point People hold up a hand, you stop. I, on the other hand, did not stop and ended up crashing right into a pole. Where the hell did that come from? "

― Jaymin Eve , Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)