It was a bit like trying to tie both shoelaces at once, one with each — Django Wexler

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

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

"“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."

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

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