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“Cats never listen. They’re dependable that way; when Rome burned, the emperor’s cats still expected to be fed on time.”
“October—You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your apartment, has requested that I inform you of his intent to vis...”
“I have a swizzle stick shaped like a little monkey,” announced Rose. “Let’s help the dead man with his problem.”
“I just feel like we’re starting to interfere on a level that’s sort of . . . extreme.” “But that’s what heroes do.”
“I just wasn’t sure it was a good idea to approach heroing the way I’d always approached detecting. Can you really shake the world until justice falls out?”
“Just thinking about how long it’s been since I’ve managed to wind up covered in blood,” I said. “It’s like a new trend. A blood-free trend.”
“Clichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.”
“When you’re late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love’s-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don’t recover from.”
