“I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience, I had five thousand and ten. That was the kind of odds that you could do something with.”
― The Amulet of Samarkand
― The Amulet of Samarkand
“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
“According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.”
― Ptolemy's Gate
― Ptolemy's Gate
“Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.”
― The Golem's Eye
― The Golem's Eye
“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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