Part-Time Gods Quotes

“You said you were ready to do anything, so it’s time to decide. Are you going to put in the work it takes to actually change yourself? Or are you going to keep asking me for help and then complaining when I tell you what you need to do?”
― Rachel Aaron, Part-Time Gods

“Are you sick?” he asked, looking me up and down. “Wait, you’re not planning to eat that potato in your bag, are you? ’Cause we just sold your microwave and your convection oven.” “It’s not for eating!” I cried. “That’s my magic potato!”
― Rachel Aaron, Part-Time Gods

“I just need to find the right associative device to help you—ah ha!” She straightened back up and thrust something brown and oblong into my hands. “There. That should work nicely.” I looked down at the object in trepidation. “This is a russet potato.” “Exactly,” she said excitedly.”
― Rachel Aaron, Part-Time Gods

“It’s not for eating!” I cried. “That’s my magic potato!”
― Rachel Aaron, Part-Time Gods

“forests in which you walked and walked and never got anywhere were generally not places you wanted to be. People scoffed when I applied fairy-tale logic to real life, but folk stories were how our ancestors passed on important magical knowledge in a world where magic had ceased to exist. Now that the drought was over and magic had come back, those tales were all relevant again.”
― Rachel Aaron, Part-Time Gods

“You said you were ready to do anything, so it’s time to decide. Are you going to put in the work it takes to actually change yourself? Or are you going to keep asking me for help and then complaining when I tell you what you need to do?” “Sorry,”
― Rachel Aaron, Part-Time Gods

“I couldn’t afford to be weak.”
― Rachel Aaron, Part-Time Gods

“the walls were decorated with more of the beautiful watercolor paintings I’d seen outside. Aside from staggeringly lovely masterpieces from an unknown genius,”
― Rachel Aaron, Part-Time Gods

“Seriously, last I heard, he had two hundred of you death-bound critters scampering around his lair! That’s the dragon equivalent of being a crazy cat lady, you know.”
― Rachel Aaron, Part-Time Gods

“looked identical to the one I’d just IDed less than an hour ago.”
― Rachel Aaron, Part-Time Gods

“Even drunk, I knew better than to poke the bear I was riding on.”
― Rachel Aaron, Part-Time Gods

“A feat achieved by religious application of moisturizer, top-notch plastic surgery, and, on occasion, literal black magic.”
― Rachel Aaron, Part-Time Gods