"Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king."
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"CINCINNATI MORGUE, AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY SERVICE SINCE 1966."
"Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like."
"Apparently their numerous tattoos gave them protection against the cold as they had no coats."
"My office is trashed,” he grumped as he squished across his damp carpet and took the coffee that I was holding out to him. “Why are you smiling? My fish are dead."
"He grinned. “That’s because pixies are ever-after. We’re magic, baby. Just ask Matalina."
"She’s not much of a team player, more of a team yeller."
"I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive."
"I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison"
"I’m not going to pick her up and carry her screaming to the basement,” Trent said. “It’s a workday. Besides, she has a crutch.” “Crutch or no, she’s hurt!” Ceri protested. “I mean,” Trent said intently, “she can hit me with it if I do something she doesn’t like."
"I jerked to a stop at the door to my room. "What's wrong with my boots?" I said, thinking they were the only thing that I was going to keep on. Ah…the only thing from this outfit, not the only thing total."
"You should be dead," he said, his voice full of wonder. "How is it that you're still alive?" Jaw clenched, I worked at his grip on me, trying to get my fingers between him and my wrist. "I work hard at it."
"Get your hand off me,” I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. “I’m a professional, not some distraught girlfriend.” Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene."
"Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better."
"I am black,” she said, and a shudder rippled through me. “I am foul with a thousand years of demon curses. Don’t cross me or I will bring you and your house down. Rachel is the only clean thing I have, and you won’t sully her to further your high ideas."
"It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen"
"Numb, I took the perfectly browned puff. Okay. Let me see if I have this right. Al provokes me into defending myself. I nearly kill him. Then Newt tries to kill me, thinking I'm Ku'Sox. Al stops her, saving my life. And now we're all going to have s'mores together?"
"Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges."
"I have to save the world tomorrow, and I don't even know what I'm going to wear yet.--Rachel Morgan"
"I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds."