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“Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, A Hidden Fire

“You died here," I said quietly.

"October -"

"I wasn't here, and the girl I'm supposed to be finding was, and you died ." I looked up at him, glaring through the tears in my eyes. I left my fingers balanced on the floor, letting his blood sing its song of pain and longing. Longing to live; refusal to let go of the world. Maybe that's what differentiates the Kings and Queens of Cats from the rest of Faerie. They have a cat's stubbornness and the power to back it up. So when death says, "Go," they just refuse.

My heart hurt. My heart hurt so badly, and I was still trying to recover from Connor, and oh, Titania, I couldn't do this again. The thought startled me. I froze where I was, still glaring.

Tybalt sighed. "I know." he hesitated before adding, "This is not the time, and this is not the place, and my nephew needs us. But I ask you to consider this. I got better. I will always get better." He hesitated again - possibly the first time I'd ever seen him pause more than once after he'd decided he was going to say something.

Finally, he said, "Some of us, October, will not leave you.”
― Seanan McGuire, Ashes of Honor

“It’s lovely,” I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.”

“That’s the best you can manage? That’s your bright, bold lie?”

“Look, lady, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,” I snapped.”
― Seanan McGuire, Ashes of Honor

“Chelsea's not near here," I said. "Do whatever hoodoo you need to do to know if Raj is nearby."

"Hoodoo"? said Tybalt, sounding amused. "I'm the King of Cats, October, not the King of Goblins."

"And you don't live in a labyrinth, but that doesn't mean you can't make like a Henson character and start scrying for our missing boy.”
― Seanan McGuire, Ashes of Honor

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty...”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites

“Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock

“But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Enchanted Glass

“Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life

“Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Hexwood

“And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life

“I settled in and told Michael, "Now, if only we had some Wagner to send us on our way."
I saw Gard's reflection in the chopper's front windows look up at my words. Then she flicked a couple of switches, and "Ride of the Valkyries" started thrumming through the helicopter's cabin.
"Yee-haw," I said as my elbows and knees started a nagging ache. "As long as we're going, we might as well go out in style.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice.

"For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“We are not going to die."

Butters stared up at me, pale, his eyes terrified. "We're not?"

"No. And do you know why?" He shook his head. "Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die." I hauled on the shirt even harder. "And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

“A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me in a while if I don’t deal with it, oh, and the island’s blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lot of the country with it if I don’t fix it.”
Thomas gave me a steady look. “So,” he said. “Same old, same old.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“Let's go get ready to do something incredibly stupid."
"Business as usual, then," he said, and fled the kitchen, laughing, before I could swat him.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“You insinuated yourself into my heart like a worm into an apple, and I am consumed by you.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Red-Rose Chain

“For a reason or a season,' he said. 'For a year or a lifetime. For a poem or a song. For a victorious battle or a bloody death. For honor. I would stand by you for as long as I might live.”
― Faith Hunter, Broken Soul

“It was possible she’d been too focused on her need for another cocktail to realize we were witnessing one of the portents of the apocalypse. ”The Luidaeg is singing Disney songs.”
― Seanan McGuire, The Brightest Fell

“Irene made a private mental resolution that if she ever became a queen, her throne would incorporate a cushion. Also a convenient bookcase.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Lost Plot

“I’m not going to tell you that everything is going to be fine. I wouldn’t do it even if I was still allowed to lie. Some things are too cruel even for a sea witch. But I will tell you that what’s on the other side of that door is never going to be as bad as the undertow in your own mind.”
― Seanan McGuire, Night and Silence

“Fragments swam in his blood, weaving their way through his entire system. A system devoid of wildfire. Devoid too of the golden lightning. Uncaring of the loss and of the agony in his chest, he opened his eyes . . . and looked into those of liquid silver.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Prophecy

“This is our territory,” I said, giving him the words he needed. “We don’t allow black magic in our territory.”
― Patricia Briggs, Storm Cursed

“He smiled, a wide, joyful expression—and oddly the fangs didn’t rob the smile of its charm. “I am at peace, Mercy,” he told me. He closed his eyes and quit moving his body. “Just like you told me. I will never be okay again.” He didn’t sound unhappy about it.”
― Patricia Briggs, Storm Cursed

“Hänen pienensä. Niin iso, että miltei joutui kumartumaan ovenkarmin alla, mutta silti hänelle aina pieni.”
― Maria Carole, Sinisen talon noita

“Asetun kyljelleni, kasvot emäntään päin, ja koetan nähdä hänet sellaisena kuin muut hänet näkevät: yhtä aikaa etuoikeutettu ja riistetty, kapinoiva ja alistunut, kerrostuneiden ristiriitojen sekasotku. Ei ihme, että hänen läheisensä katsovat oikeudekseen asetella elämän valmiiksi hänen ympärilleen. Emäntä antaa sen tapahtua, koska hänellä ei ole aatetta, ei päämäärää. Ei mitään, minkä puolesta elää ja taistella ja kuolla. Minkä puolesta tappaa.”
― Terhi Tarkiainen, Pure mua

“Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?”
“I have spies everywhere.”
I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate.
“She had tea with Mahon’s wife.” Andrea said.
Aunt B looked at her. “You and I need to work on your air of mystery.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Rises

“He’s getting grimmer and grimmer,” Barabas said.
”Derek?”
”Yes. Before long he will start emitting his own dark cloud.”
”Maybe we can all sneak around under the cover of his darkness.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Rises

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing