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New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1) QUOTES

New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1) QUOTES

1 " You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

2 " I am a sorcerer, lad, not a cannibal. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

3 " Much as she despised the man, she had to admit to a certain agreeable shiver when his lips brushed her glove. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

4 " Absently her hand came up to press the place between her breasts where a sigil tattooed in crimson marked her training. She felt as if his gaze burrowed through cloth to notice it. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

5 " He let her have the silence while she selected her words. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

6 " Life went on; there were apples in the markets now, and squash, and cabbages and potatoes to set by for winter. It was Garrett’s job to be concerned with justice and the dead. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

7 " He was about the color, shape, and size of an ostrich-feather duster and suited Garrett much better than either of them suited the décor of her townhouse. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

8 " Say what you would about the Crown Investigator; she was a lady who could hold her liquor. She chortled at the thought: most unladylike, which made her laugh the more. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

9 " The voice resonated, a sound like the wind scraping the corners of old buildings and racing down the narrow streets. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

10 " Sebastien had raised Jack Priest, and for all his fey flighty affection, Garrett’s estimation of the young man was that he was a keenly trained observer, and one who knew that the most relevant clues were sometimes those that seemed incomprehensible at the time. And that that ostensible delicacy masked a galvanized will.

She kept a terrier. She knew the type. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

11 " There was, as far as Garrett understood, no actual reason why incantations were in Latin or Greek, Aramaic or Hebrew, other than tradition and mystique. But she found the discipline useful. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

12 " She glanced over her shoulder, pinning the hapless patrolman on a needle-pointed gaze, wondering which of her notories occupied his attention. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

13 " Admit nothing. An iron dignity is an unbroachable defense. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

14 " The words were low, more shape than breath. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

15 " May I know your name, sir?"
The smile rearranged his face under the terrible scars. "Nezahualcoyotl. Michel Nezahualcoyotl. Charmed. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

16 " She rolled her shoulders over a corset that gave her the general appearance of the prow of a battleship, and curled one loose strand around her finger in a gesture that would have been coquettish, were she young. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

17 " The collective resources of an authoress, a sorceress, and a wampyr and his valet are not to be underestimated. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

18 " I hadn’t the wit left to divert Mme. Pontchartrain’s determined questioning. Fortunately, I had the wit to realize it, so I pled a cognac headache and fled. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

19 " If you’re stupid enough to sleep with your superior, you’d best be smart enough to use whatever you have left. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)

20 " There was, they conceded, no point in pretending to be other than they were, as it seemed their presence was not secret and never had been. "

― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)