"Sending my awareness down through my tattoos, I looked for holes in my bindings, anything the least bit out of the ordinary, to make sure that I was alone and unwatched."
"When Kevin Costner asks his dad at the end if he'd like to have a catch, I just completely lose my shit."
"It is fine to be sporting when we hunt. It is ridiculous to be sporting in war, and often fatal."
"Everything in the store had the same binding spell on it that I had put on Fragarach in my backyard. Nothing could go out the door unless it had first been placed on the counter next to one of the registers."
"I heard Coyote laughin’ last night, and he doesn’t laugh at the harmless, does he now?"
"I’m thinkin’ it’s high time we had ourselves a heart-to-heart, and there’s no reason it shouldn’t be had over the best fish and chips in thirty states."
"Most places excelled in either one or the other, but rare was the establishment that paid equal attention to both sides of the culinary complement."
"Witches could do some pretty heinous stuff with hair, blood, or even nail clippings."
"I can make you some oolong with an antioxidant booster that’s simply awesome."
"A friend will help ye move, Katie, but a really good friend will help ye move a body."
"It is life’s small, simple pleasures that make it worth living longer than a century or two."
"Real fights don't look as pretty as the ones you see in movies."
"I had hoped he would brace himself, keep his feet, and serve as a wall between me and the fellows behind him."
"I'm going to need my strength if I want to be good as new by morning."
"Let's debate the meaning of honor and see who lives longer."
"You’re welcome to look around if you’d like."
"She’s decided to take the high road, so I’ll be happy to walk it with her as long as she likes."
"Thank you for not lying. Last question: Which member of the Tuatha Dé Danann have you most recently seen in corporeal form?"
"Bingo, as they say in church halls on Wednesday nights."
"If we fought the Tuatha Dé Danann, we’d get so pwned."
"It doesn’t matter to me whether you believe it or not."
"You have implied that a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann is afraid of you, and yet you offer no credible reason why this may be true."
"She’s kind of like a Mary Poppins just before she turns to the dark side of the Force."
"I’d rather come to work with you from now on. It’s fun to watch you pretend to be normal."
"I jumped up and down and swore violently in seventeen languages."
"Wouldn’t it be cool if you could automatically avoid assholes for the rest of your life?"
"As the Black Knight famously said, that’s just a flesh wound."
"Besides, there’s that saying about laughter being the best medicine. Whoever said that didn’t have blood in their left lung, though, I feel certain."
"You can count on their discretion as long as you pay for it."
"Perfect. Treat this whole thing as outpatient, because I need you to let me go right afterward, and you should bill full costs to Magnusson and Hauk, no insurance."
"You’re the reason we need health care reform, you know."
"Maybe I’m going to a titty bar. It’s none of your business. Come on, Doctor, let’s go."
"If you cannot find me at home or at work, you may contact me through Hal Hauk, my attorney."
"After drawing some energy from a tree to allow me to breathe more freely, if not without pain, I left Snorri and Jimenez behind to play Where’s the Druid?"
"Running wasn’t attractive to me anymore, because I’d been there and done that for two millennia."
"Other people in my life right now, who help me forget all the other people I have buried or lost: They are truly magic for me."
"Airmid," I said simply, thinking Granuaile would have no idea what I was talking about.
"I want to know what truly happened in history from someone who was there."
"But your power, a Druid’s power, comes from the earth, right?"
"I want to do something fantastic with my life. I’m only twenty-two, you know."
"There are several reasons, actually," she began. "Laksha knows a great deal about magic, because she has been around for a long time. But she knows you are older than she is."
"The trick of transferring one’s spirit from place to place I learned from a vetala."
"In the past I just took them, but now I adhere to a higher moral standard."
"So the body at the bottom of the sea—that wasn’t the body you were born with?"
"This is the question that has puzzled humanity for centuries."
"I allowed them to move on in the cycle of birth and rebirth."
"That may be true. And believe me, I now know it was terribly wrong of me."
"I think you are doubting my good intentions."
"Consort!" Laksha looked aggrieved at that accusation.
"All right, I take it back," I said, waving my hands in frustration.
"I could have taken Granuaile’s body forcibly, as I used to do in days past."
"I am trying now to enrich the world with my gifts rather than spread chaos and ruin."
"You gave her my necklace in exchange for this cloak! I think she got the better of you in that bargain!"
"I’ve waited long enough. If Aenghus Óg wants this sword, then he can have it—for just as long as it takes me to eviscerate him."
"I never got to enjoy that last whiskey, because that’s when Gunnar Magnusson, alpha male of the Tempe Pack, came barging into Rúla Búla."
"We saw those bloody werewolves with me own eyes!"
"Kill every last one o’ the bastards and call me in the mornin’."
"Believe me, it’s not that you have skin like two-percent milk."
"No one is so formal! You could just say ‘if you’re free’ and end it there, though it would have been better to say ‘if you ain’t doin’ nothing.’"
"Gods Below, you compose your sentences in blank verse? No wonder you can’t carry on a half hour’s conversation with a sorority girl!"
"This is the best! There’s nothing better than belly rubs. Except maybe for French poodles."
"Yes, and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy."
"Thor certainly tends to inspire murderous thoughts."
"We cannot be tied down by some ancient tale dreamed up in the frozen brains of my ancestors."
"Pain is the fastest way to stir up the reptilian brain, and once awakened, it tends to shut off the higher functions of the cerebral cortex, leaving one witless and unable to function beyond the instinctive fight-or-flight level."
"People shop at outdoor malls like Tempe Marketplace wearing nothing but a light sweater."
"The music is live Thursday through Saturday nights because the mall sponsors free concerts on its outdoor stage, always featuring family-friendly bands who play as if they’re contractually bound to avoid minor chords."
"One would think they’d also be safe from the attentions of sociopathic kobolds, but I discovered, to my chagrin on a Monday night, that this was not the case."
"I certainly hope all is ready," I said. "Remind me of your name, friend?"
"We are here to recover that which was stolen."
"It’s the little things that make life worth living for such a long time."
"It’s a coffee place. You can’t just automatically classify anything that isn’t a steak house as vegetarian."
"Since I’m the only real Druid left, the witches are getting away with a lot more than they used to."
""
"You just ruin meat when you put pickled cabbage on it."
"By modern standards you should be locked away and sucking down Thorazine in a tall icy glass with an umbrella in it."
"I don’t know who Jane Austen is, but I’m sure she’s sensible enough to worry about more important things than baby fingernails and Tic Tacs."
"You don’t know what warm fuzzies are until you get personally welcomed to a forest by its avatar."
"It’s simpler to just call it Druidry, the magic of binding the natural world."
"You know, my ears popped again just a while ago, and I thought I heard somebody screaming and a bunch of birds and horses going nuts. This forest is kind of spooky."