Con & Conjure Quotes

“I have a reputation to maintain."
"Best-dressed pirate?”
― Lisa Shearin, Con & Conjure

“How much farther?” I asked after we’d gone up one floor and through another ten minutes.
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“Uh . . . I’m not exactly sure,” Phaelan admitted.
I blinked. “What do you mean you’re not sure? Where are we?”
“I’m not sure of that, either.”
Phaelan looked slightly embarrassed. It wasn’t a look I’d seen on him often, and considering what it implied, I didn’t want to see it on him now.
I gaped at him. “We’re lost?”
“I didn’t say that.”
“You didn’t have to. You don’t know where we are. That’s called lost.”
“The blueprints didn’t include this floor. Besides, I prefer to think of it as temporarily misplaced.”
― Lisa Shearin, Con & Conjure

“This is as good a place as any for you to locate the bastard,” Tam said.
“Bastard? I thought you said you never met Rache.”
“I haven’t. He hurt you, he’s hunting Chigaru, therefore he’s a bastard. The goblin language has much more accurate terms, but that one will do for now.”
“Do you mean jak’aprit?” Vegard asked helpfully.
Tam inhaled with intense satisfaction. “The very word. Well done, Vegard.”
The big Guardian grinned. “I believe in knowing how to insult a man in every language.”
― Lisa Shearin, Con & Conjure