“Much has happened since last we met, Bartimaeus," he went on. "Do you remember how we parted?"
"No." I did.
"You set light to me, old friend. Struck a match and left me burning in a copse."
The crow shifted uneasily beneath the cleaver."That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland...”
― Ptolemy's Gate
"No." I did.
"You set light to me, old friend. Struck a match and left me burning in a copse."
The crow shifted uneasily beneath the cleaver."That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland...”
― Ptolemy's Gate
“Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style."
"That is a footstool.”
― The Golem's Eye
"That is a footstool.”
― The Golem's Eye
“The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.”
― Ptolemy's Gate
― Ptolemy's Gate
“Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing about in the Red Sea. No one heard my hollers. In the end an old fisherman set me free, by which time I was desperate enough to grant him several wishes. I erupted in the form of a smoking giant, did a few lightning bolts, and bent to ask him his desire. Poor old boy had dropped dead of a heart attack. There should be a moral there, but for the life of me I can't see one.”
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“One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.”
― The Amulet of Samarkand
― The Amulet of Samarkand
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