Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!) Quotes

“Energy to move, I summon thee. Hmm. That clearly failed.”
― Honor Raconteur, Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!)

“The expression on his face went past ‘irritated.’ I do believe dragons readying themselves to raid a town sported similar facial twitches.”
― Honor Raconteur, Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!)

“No, of course I haven’t been robbed,” I sighed to myself, setting my bag down off to the side. “My mother is a picklock. I’d failed to remember that for a moment.”
― Honor Raconteur, Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!)

“Remember, Henri, you can’t go about belting people in the mouth for stupidity. For one thing, you’d be hitting people from dawn to dusk without any end in sight. For another, you need your hands for other things.”
― Honor Raconteur, Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!)

“I had unfortunately reached that state in which I’d utterly stopped paying attention, so I tried to focus. Then found myself focusing so hard on focusing that I still wasn’t paying attention”
― Honor Raconteur, Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!)

“Knowing very well what she contemplated, I asked dryly, “Are you by any chance contemplating punching your way up through the ceiling?” She batted her big brown eyes at me. “Maaaybe.” My partner enjoyed inherent destruction far too much.”
― Honor Raconteur, Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!)

“Hope takes energy to cultivate and these people had little to spare.”
― Honor Raconteur, Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!)

“Fortunately, as I made the porch, the door opened”
― Honor Raconteur, Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!)

“This corner typically saw three accidents a week, but since its installation, we hadn’t nary a one.”
― Honor Raconteur, Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!)

“Have you ever noticed,” I inquired of my companion acidly, “that greed directly leads to stupidity?”
― Honor Raconteur, Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!)

“Jamie’s system was so unstable that the changes pregnancy required would undo her utterly. It would kill both her and the child, likely in the first trimester. Jamie Edwards would be a wonderful mother. And she’d never get the chance.”
― Honor Raconteur, Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!)

“By itself, the influenza wasn’t deadly, or so I was told.”
― Honor Raconteur, Charms and Death and Explosions (oh my!)