205 Quotes by Sarah Monette

He’d learned the key thing about any serious conversation with Felix, which was that you couldn’t let him distract you.

He turned and strode out of the square with the brisk arrogance of a man who had never imainged the possibility of his being in the wrong.

The Spire is a bad card. It can mean a literal tower, but it also means a fall from a height, whether literal or figurative, the destruction of something old and valuable. It means isolation, abandonment. It is the card of the scapegoat.”“All of them things?”He raises an eyebrow at me. “The card also means falling to prey to your own self-confidence.

Gideon was there, warm and green and smelling slightly of cloves but not at all of bitterness and death, and I could hear no voices in my head at all.

There are no gardens in the Mirador. Only graveyards.

I dreamed about her long, snaky body and about her deep, drawling voice. The voice was the worst. I’d wake up at the ninth or tenth hour of the night, my heart banging in my chest, and I’d lie there holding my breath in case she called my name again.

I felt like an old bone being worried by three dogs, like sooner or later one of them was going to pull too hard, and I was just going to snap in half. The Money Dog, the Fever Dog, and the Dreams Dog I called them, and I didn’t know which of them I should be scared of most. They all three had teeth like alligators.

It was kind of comfortable, in a weird sort of way, watching a client’s face while he decided how he was going to lie to me.

My vision is warping and splintering again; I can feel the darkness waiting for you, feel myself sliding inch by inch, fingertip by fingertip, back into the world of monsters and ghosts out of which the Curia lifted me. Sometimes when I look at him, Thaddeus has the head of a raven.