“Ashes, how did you do it?” — Django Wexler

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

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

"“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.”"

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

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

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