Phaelan Quotes

“I have a reputation to maintain."
"Best-dressed pirate?”
― Lisa Shearin, Con & Conjure

“How much farther?” I asked after we’d gone up one floor and through another ten minutes.
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“Uh . . . I’m not exactly sure,” Phaelan admitted.
I blinked. “What do you mean you’re not sure? Where are we?”
“I’m not sure of that, either.”
Phaelan looked slightly embarrassed. It wasn’t a look I’d seen on him often, and considering what it implied, I didn’t want to see it on him now.
I gaped at him. “We’re lost?”
“I didn’t say that.”
“You didn’t have to. You don’t know where we are. That’s called lost.”
“The blueprints didn’t include this floor. Besides, I prefer to think of it as temporarily misplaced.”
― Lisa Shearin, Con & Conjure

“I knew there was evil in the world. Death and taxes were all necessary evils.
So was shopping.
“I hate shopping,” I muttered.
“Of course you do,” Phaelan said. “You’re a Benares. We’re not used to paying for anything.”
― Lisa Shearin, The Trouble with Demons