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Аноним16 апреля 2017 г.“A little more education can go a long way here, when we’re relying on educated guesses,” Rose said. “Hell, we could find a Tesla coil or something, spit out electricity. Or get a neon sign maker to do a diabolic circle. We could have better resources, too”
“That sounds marvelously tacky,” Fell said. “I’d be offended on behalf of practitioners everywhere, if you tried it and it actually worked.”09- Аноним16 апреля 2017 г.Читать далее
“What I think,” Rose said, “is you’re falling into the same trap most diabolists do. The same trap grandmother did. An inability or unwillingness to look forward. You’re too focused on the present.”
“Present is kind of important.”
“I’m sure grandmother thought the same thing. Except you’re liable to run into a situation like she did. You reach the end of the line, where you’re cornered or all the problems and consequences you’ve been postponing start catching up with you, and you’re forced to make a big compromise, or you make a mistake, or something.”09 - Аноним16 апреля 2017 г.
"...my common sense is telling me something is wrong."
“I just dealt with an imp, a crazed goblin-beast and a practitioner with a vendetta, all in the span of two and a half days. If things were right, that’d be a pretty good sign something is pretty damn wrong.”08 - Аноним16 апреля 2017 г.
I was brimming with a sick kind of nervousness. The sort of nervousness that went beyond the nervousness of ‘what if I get fucked/hurt/ruined’ and into the ‘when‘.
07 - Аноним16 апреля 2017 г.
I’m basically one step below a starving artist. I’m the guy who lives off the generosity of the artists.
08 - Аноним16 апреля 2017 г.
By and large, asking an American how far away something was tended to get an answer in terms of miles. The gas station is a quarter mile that way. Ask a Canadian? Time. The highway is a ten minute drive thataway. Or so the idea went, with exemptions for more civilized areas of the States and less civilized parts of Canada.
08 - Аноним16 апреля 2017 г.
Congratulations, Blake Thorburn. You’ve successfully reverted two or three million years. You’re an ape in a tree, hiding from the scary things.
09 - Аноним16 апреля 2017 г.
“What if I shot you?” he offered. “You could stop worrying about being used. You’d be dead.”
He said it in such a friendly, casual way. Like he was offering me a ride.07 - Аноним16 апреля 2017 г.Читать далее
“Knowledge is power, and it’s a kind of security too.”
“A novice mistake,” Fell commented.
“Hm?”
“Are you really more secure than you were before you learned about how this world works?”
“Depends what you mean,” I said. “I was more secure before I learned about magic and demons existing, sure. But the moment I began to teach myself stuff, well, whole different ball game. Yeah, I’m more secure.”
“That same knowledge led to this issue with the ambiance, diabolist. Had you known nothing, then Conquest would have had nothing to demand of you.”
“So being ignorant is the way to go, huh?” I asked.
“For billions of people on this Earth, yes,” Fell said. “It affords a kind of protection. Not immunity. But on the whole, the average person is better off for being unaware.”05 - Аноним16 апреля 2017 г.
“You expect me to share details with you, diabolist? For nothing?”
I almost protested against the label, but it was accurate. “An alternative is that I share my life story, filling the endless minutes or hours in the car with personal details, either boring you to tears or getting you to sympathize with me.”04