Django Wexler

"He was, of course, cheating her, that was what lawyers were for."

"“You’re a cat,” she said automatically. “Your powers of perception are astounding,” the cat drawled. “Although I feel obliged to point out, in the interests of ontological exactitude, that I am in fact only half cat. Personally, though, I have always considered it the better half.”"

"Magic, you’ll find, is nine parts dull to one part excitement, and the exciting bits usually hurt like the blazes."

"The sum total of Alice’s medical knowledge was that blood was supposed to stay on the inside."

"The truth can be useful, sometimes. Assuming you can convince people."

"It was a bit like trying to tie both shoelaces at once, one with each hand."

"But—though she was not an expert on cats—she was fairly certain that they did not, as a rule, snicker."

"“The strongest don’t always get what they want,” she said to Ending. “Not when the weak can work together.”"

"“I still say they’re creepy,” Ashes said. “I don’t think you get to decide what’s creepy,” Alice said. “You’re a talking cat. You’re creepy. This whole place is creepy.”"

"“They were pretty friendly, for dancing skeletons,” Isaac said, waving after them. “If I’ve learned one thing,” Alice said, “it’s not to judge by appearances.”"

"“Ashes, how did you do it?” “I’d like to say it was all my own talent, but cats are naturally modest.”"

"‘‘This isn’t some stupid storybook where the underdog wins in the end. This is the real world. The strongest do what they want, and everyone else has to live with it. Or”—she glanced significantly at Isaac—“not.”"