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21 " Rynn Cormel had run the world during the Turn, his living charisma somehow crossing the boundaries of death to give his undead existence an uncanny mimicry of life. Every move was a careful study of causality. It was highly unusual for so young an undead vampire to be so good at mimicking having a soul. I figured it was because he was a politician and had had practice way before he died. "
― Kim Harrison , The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows, #6)
22 " Newt had said I loved Ivy more than the church. I wasn’t going to deny it, but there were all kinds of love, and how shallow would I be if my anchor to reality was a hunk of real estate? It was the people who were there that made it mean something. "
23 " Oh, God, I’m going to be a hundred and sixty with a flower on my ass. "
24 " I thought about all the times I had brought in black witches, pitying them for their foolishness, telling myself demons were dangerous, manipulating bastards who you couldn’t beat. But I wasn’t trying to beat them, I was trying to join them…apparently. "
25 " Taking a breath, I stepped into the line to find him standing right where I’d left him, smiling with his hand extended. (Rachel and Al) "
26 " Oh, my God, when Ivy got it wrong, she really got it wrong. I didn’t need a boyfriend. I had all the drama I could stand right here. "
27 " Suddenly I felt vastly underdressed. Hell, even the woman dressed down as a hobo had diamonds on. "
28 " Ivy, however, just wanted to get in David’s pants. "
29 " I shook my head and settled myself in the bumpy wicker chair. Now, what would be a good segue? So, I hear Jih isn’t the only one who’s been knocked up…. "
30 " I’m giving you fair warning, Mr. Cormel. If you bespell Rachel, I’ll open up your head for the sunshine to come in.” - Jenks "
31 " My name is Bis,” he said, “and I was kicked off the basilica because I was spitting on the people coming in. Suck-up little Glissando thinks she knows angel dust from dirt and tattled on me. "
32 " By the light coming from the patio, it looked a shade after sunrise. I had to stop waking up at this hour. It was just insane. "
33 " Sometimes it takes a two-by-four across your head to realize what you want isn't what you'll end up with if you get it. "
34 " My fingers tightened on my waxed paper cup, sure now I knew why Minias was sitting at a table sipping coffee with me. I had a password. I had a reason to trade. I had a major problem. "
35 " I didn’t like this. I didn’t like this at all. I had been worried about Al trashing a bar. What if he showed up here amid Cincy’s finest citizens and its most helpless orphans? I’d be lynched. "
36 " The former world leader snarled at me when he found his balance. My face went cold, and I wondered if I’d fare better in the circle with Al. "
37 " I smirked as I recalled how Jenks’s kids took to Ceri, and how Ellasbeth’s mother, another pure-blood elf, adored Jenks. I didn’t have any such “charmed” feelings for the lump of somnolent rock in the belfry rafters, and as far as I knew, neither did any other witch. "
38 " Great power does not corrupt a person, it only brings their true self into the light, "
39 " Anything worth having is going to be hard, "
40 " There's someone out there who's suited for you. Someone who has enough strength or knowledge to keep themselves safe. I bet there's a foxy young man looking right now for a woman who can take care of herself and thinking he can't have anyone either. "