Джекаби

Не тратьте попусту время. Жизнь так коротка для безответной любви.

– Меньше знаешь – крепче спишь?
– Избитая фраза. Крепче всех спят счастливцы. Но неведение служит анестетиком.

“Hatun sees a different world than you or I, a far more frightening one, full of far more terrible dangers, and still she chooses to be the hero whom that world needs. She has saved this town and its people from countless monsters countless times. That the battles are usually in her head does not lessen the bravery of it. The hardest battles always are.”

It was a corner in which anything was possible, where magic was not an improbable daydream, but an obvious fact — if still only just out of reach.

There were enough voices in my life telling me I couldn’t this, or shouldn’t that, or that I wasn’t up to the task—the last thing I intended to do was start agreeing with them.

Jackaby made a noise, which might have been a huff and might have been a laugh. “I have ceased concerning myself with how things look to others, Abigail Rook. I suggest you do the same. In my experience, others are generally wrong.”

“But . . . why don’t you want me with you?”
“Because you have been with me all morning and have not fainted, struck me with anything, or metamorphosed into an aquatic bird. I should very much like this to remain the state of things, at least for your first day.”