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Jackaby (Jackaby, #1) QUOTES

Jackaby (Jackaby, #1) QUOTES

1 " Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

2 " To the attention of the New Fiddleham Police Department: You've got my middle-C, and I would like it back.

...

Please return Jackaby's tuning fork. He's getting even more obnoxious than usual. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

3 " I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

4 " R.F. JACKABY
INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES
ASSISTANT WANTED
-$8 PER WEEK-
Must be literate and possess a keen intellect and open mind.
Strong stomach preferred.
Inquire at 926 Augur Lane.
Do not stare at the frog. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

5 " Maybe if you would bother reading a book once in a while instead of hurling them about every chance you get, you would have put the pieces together yourself by now "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

6 " It wasn’t that I did not believe in ghosts; it was that I believed in them in the same noncommittal way that I believed in giant squids or lucky coins or Belgium. They were things that probably existed, but I had never given any occasion to really care one way or another. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

7 " Does this smell like paprika or gunpowder to you? "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

8 " Don't feel too bad" I offered. "I met him face-to-face, and I missed it, too."
"Yes, but no one expected you to be clever Miss Rook."
"Thanks for that," I said "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

9 " Come to think of it, I am already keeping correspondence with a dog, with whom, I must admit, I find myself rather smitten. Also, I'm secretly hoping Mrs. Wiggles ends up a full halibut when this is through, because that would save me a trip to the market... although if Hatun's troll keeps company with a tabby, perhaps he wouldn't much appreciate a meal that used to be a cat."
Jackaby stared "I've already ruined you, haven't I?"
"Looks that way."
"And I suppose there's nothing to be done about it?"
"Not a thing. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

10 " I don’t exactly believe in all this… this… this occult business. I don’t believe in house spirits, or goblins, or Santa Claus!”

“Well, of course not, that’s silliness. Not the spirits or goblins, of course, but the Santa nonsense. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

11 " So she’s just a mad woman?”

Jackaby hesitated, and when he spoke, his answer had a soft earnestness to it. “Hatun sees a different world than you or I, a far more frightening one, full of far more terrible dangers, and still she chooses to be the hero whom that world needs. She has saved this town and its people from countless monsters countless times. That the battles are usually in her head does not lessen the bravery of it. The hardest battles always are. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

12 " A young woman across the dock pulled her winter coat tightly around herself and ducked her chin down as the crowd of sailors passed. Her shoulders might have shaken, just a little, but she kept to her path without letting the men's boisterous laughter keep her from her course. In her I saw myself, a fellow lost girl, headstrong and headed anywhere but home. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

13 " Miss Rook, I am not an occultist.” Jackaby turned on the landing and faced me. “I am a man of reason and science. I believe what I can see or prove, and what I can see is often difficult for others to grasp. I have a gift that is, as far as I have found, unique to me. It allows me to see truth where others see the illusion—and there are many illusions, so many masks and facades. All the world’s a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

14 " We are not the policy department, except for those of us who are," Jackaby revised. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

15 " Oh good God! You stared at the frog, didn't you? "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

16 " But you - you notice mailboxes and wastebaskets and... and people. One who can see the ordinary is extraordinary indeed, Abigail Rook. - Jackaby "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

17 " – Я перестал переживать о том, что думают окружающие, Эбигейл Рук. Советую и вам последовать моему примеру. По собственному опыту я знаю, что окружающие обычно заблуждаются. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

18 " That the battles are usually in her head does not lessen the bravery of it. The hardest ones always are. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

19 " I have ceased concerning myself with how things look to others, Abigail Rook. I suggest you do the same. In my experience, others are generally wrong. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)

20 " This world is full of dragon-slayers. What we need are a few more people who aren't too proud to listen to a few fish. "

― William Ritter , Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)