“The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“... he was sunset against the mountains, strong, vibrant, dangerous, and yet somehow sheltering, protective. And married.
Picnic, meet rain.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Shamus ordered half a cup of house brew. Then he proceeded to fill the cup up the rest of the way with milk and sugar. Lots of sugar.
“Sure you got enough milk in your sugar?” I asked as we strolled out of the shop and headed south.
He flipped me off. “You drink your coffee your way, and I’ll drink my coffee the right way.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“…I noticed you don’t have any self-defense training…”
“…I can handle myself just fine.”
She stared at me for a long, uncomfortable moment. Finally, “In the very short time I’ve known you, you have been chased, shot, robbed, stabbed, drugged, and attacked by magic.”
“I’m still breathing, aren’t I?”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“I resisted the urge to pour mouthwash in my brain.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Maybe in the morning, sunlight would to turn him back into a statue; then I could take Stone out to the forest where he could frolic among the ferns, gurgle at streams, and make friends with the other interesting rocks.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Since I didn't have a spork handy, I leaned over the sink and scooped up a palmful of cold water and pressed it against my face. There had to be a better option than a violent sporking. There had to be a way to get rid of my dad.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“…Keep your magic to yourself, missy.”
“Like I’d want my magic mixing with yours anyway.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Sex everywhere, all the time…One time during training, I actually had to carry
bags of ice around and lob them at the two of them to keep them from spontaneously f*cking.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“The pink rose Zayvion had given me looked a little worse for the wear, but it wasn't dead yet. Tough flowers, roses.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“My voice rose up and up with each question, even though I didn’t want it to. It’s called panic. I’m good at it.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Aspirin?” I asked. It came out sounding a lot like ass spoon, but Zayvion seemed fluent in mumbleze.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Shamus shrugged. “It’s all about energy exchange. It could always go the other way, me feeding a plant instead of drawing the life out of it.”
“Do that often?”
Shamus looked at me over his shoulder. “No.”
“Why not? Have something against plants?”
“No, but I haven’t met a vegetable good enough to sacrifice a year of my life for.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“I did win, you know,” I said.
“No, you didn’t.”
“Yes, I did. I knocked you out.”
“Stunned me. I wasn’t unconscious.”
“Oh, please, save it for the preacher. You were out cold.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Listen,” I said, cool as a 911 operator talking someone down from a ledge, “you’re dead. I’m sorry about that, but I am not going to let you possess me. So follow the light, or go to the other side, or hang around your own house and haunt your accounting ledgers or something. You do not get to stay in my head.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Let go of the past, of the things I wanted, of the people I loved, and move forward.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Zayvion swore, and I mean he pulled out a raft of curses that made me rethink his upbringing.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“I opened the door as quickly as I could—speedy as a snail in glue. My fine-motor coordination was set on suck mode.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Cody?” I said. “Why are you dead?” Tact. I got it.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Zayvion and I had an agreement that we were going to give this relationship everything we could. And that included trust, faith, and honesty. Not a single one of which was among my strong points.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“He'd already put a shirt on each leg and had stacked every shoe I owned into a precarious pyramid. The room looked like a small, overly curious tornado had torn it apart.
"You have got to be kidding me," I said. "Maybe I should give you to Shamus.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“We didn’t like each other when you were alive,” I muttered to my father. “You think living in my head is going to change that?”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“But even in the unglamorous warp of the peephole, she looked like a million sunny days to me.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“But it was getting pretty hard to grieve someone who wouldn’t just get on with the dying.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Don’t tell me there are more things like that on the streets.”
“Okay,” he said.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Should I take anything?” I asked, as Shamus slammed the trunk shut.
“A healthy sense of self-preservation would be good,” he said.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“The price for using dark magic is death, so that goes a long way toward deterring users.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“My feet hurt, my back hurt, and I really needed to pee. Yeah, I was feeling really powerful.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
“Or, if you don't like the buildings, you can head to FOrest Park. That place is so big, they'd never find you in there. Just think of it: you could start up some big foot sightings.”
― Devon Monk, quote from Magic in the Shadows
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“I don't think he was used to patients who were already aware of what their real problem was. He was also a bit of a pill-pusher. I balked at trying antidepressants, I just couldn't see myself taking pills to try to be less of a fraud. I said that even if they worked, how would I know if it was me or the pills? By that time I already knew I was a fraud. I knew what my problem was, I just couldn't seem to stop. I remember I spent maybe the first twenty times or so in analysis acting all open and candid but in reality sort of fencing with him or leading him around by the nose, basically showing him that I wasn't just another one of those patients who stumbled in with no clue what their real problem was or who were totally out of touch with the truth themselves.”
― David Foster Wallace, quote from Oblivion
“This was the real world then- Beauty and I free to have each other and all the others gone. Just the two of us in my bedchamber, where I should envelop her naked soul in rituals and ordeals beyond our past experiences, our dreams. No one to save her from me. No one to save me from her. My slave, my poor helpless slave...”
― quote from The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
“Do you remember, Meir, that epigram quoted in the name of Rabbi Johanan ben Zaccai: 'There is no truth unless there be a faith on which it may rest'? Ironically enough the only sure principle I have achieved is this which I have known almost all my life. And it is so. For all truths rest ultimately on some act of faith, geometry on axioms, the sciences on the assumptions of the objective existence and orderliness of the world of nature. In every realm one must lay down postulates or he shall have nothing at all. So with morality and religion. Faith and reason are not antagonists. On the contrary, salvation is through the commingling of the two, the former to establish first premises, the latter to purify them of confusion and to draw the fullness of their implications. It is not certainty which one acquires so, only plausibility, but that is the best we can hope for.”
― quote from As a Driven Leaf
“Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion; but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.”
― Isaac Newton, quote from The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
“when a man has nothing left to lose, his aim becomes an obsession which can only lead to achievement. There’s nowhere to go but up when you hit rock bottom. Vijay”
― S. Hussain Zaidi, quote from Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
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