The Wonder Engine Quotes

“It could,” acknowledged Slate, “but show me a clandestine operation without leaks, and I’ll show you one where everybody involved is dead.” “We’re a clandestine operation,” said Caliban. There was an awkward silence.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Sorry, guys. We're not all tragic heroes. Some of us are just tragic.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Well, if I live through this, my nightmares will be amazing.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“I'm not supposed to be the reliable one here! I'm supposed to be the one who stabs people for money, and this lovesick bullshit of yours is seriously cramping my style!”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Shame flitted briefly over Brenner’s face, but found itself in unfamiliar surroundings and didn’t settle.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“I would know you anywhere. I would recognize you at the bottom of a mineshaft on a moonless light, if I were deaf and blind.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“The perfect gentle knight. She had a strong urge to kick him in the shins. Which would do precisely nothing and he'd look confused at me. And then probably offer to take his shin armor off so I could try again without hurting my foot.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Nobody tortures people at home. It ruins the carpets.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“People do the stupidest shit and you want to scream that it’s against their own interests and you never know if they’re playing some deep game you don’t know about or if they’re really just that stupid.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Hell, if I kissed him, he’d probably apologize for getting in the way of my lips. That might be an interesting apology.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Slate was used to, “Can we help you?” translating as, “If you make me get up, I will have you drawn and quartered.” She’d never heard it mean, “I will throw myself off a building if it will make your day better, sir.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“There is a person in this world who feels safe in my arms. It felt like grace.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“The hole in your heart is very large. Be careful what you allow to fill it.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Do you think I don’t know how to act around thieves and ruffians?” “The fact that you even use a word like ‘ruffians’ is not filling me with confidence, no.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Do you ever miss?” asked Caliban.

“All the time. I missed that last guy.”

“You put a dagger in his eye.”

“Yes, but I was aiming for the other eye.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“He wanted to dance around and laugh hysterically and howl at the moon. He wanted to kiss Slate passionately and yell to random passersby, “She probably doesn’t hate me!”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Caliban would have laid down his life for Slate, probably with a sense of relief, but a man’s socks…that was asking a lot.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“It is gratifying,” said Learned Edmund. “The world is often sorely unappreciative of quality indexing.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“I met a goddess.” “Well, these things happen,” said Slate. “Except, wait, no, they don’t. What the hell? Why’d you meet a goddess?”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Politics,” she said. “It doesn’t make any sense. People do the stupidest shit and you want to scream that it’s against their own interests and you never know if they’re playing some deep game you don’t know about or if they’re really just that stupid. Right now, I think we’re having a war because we’ve already got a war, so we might as well keep it.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“I would know you anywhere. I would recognize you at the bottom of a mineshaft on a moonless night if I were deaf and blind.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Stealing from a library?” said Learned Edmund in horror.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“We’re friends, by which he means he respects my talents and nobody’s paid him money to kill me.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“She had a strong urge to kiss him, and then perhaps beat him about the head and shoulders with his own sword.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Is this about the wonder-engine?” “I have no idea,” said Learned Edmund. He leaned his forehead against the heel of his hand. “It might be. It might be a recipe for boiled cabbages. Nothing is organized. I am going old before my time looking at these.” “You’re nineteen.” “Each of these pages is taking a month off my life.” “When you get to the bottom of the box, you’ll still be younger than I am.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“(“Don’t lurk, Brenner. You’re an acolyte. Acolytes look worried all the time. Like they’re afraid they’ll do something the gods will disapprove of.”)”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“It was a trifle awkward”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Politics,” she said. “It doesn’t make any sense. People do the stupidest shit and you want to scream that it’s against their own interests and you never know if they’re playing some deep game you don’t know about or if they’re really just that stupid.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“When this is over, I am going to slap you so hard that your ancestors will apologize for you.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine

“Didn't expect to be an avatar today myself, but that's what I get for not eating breakfast.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine