Цитаты из книги Санктуарий

…grief wants answers…

…sometimes life just serves shit for giggles.

Yokel - an uneducated and unsophisticated person from the countryside.

I’m trying to lead him toward what I want - permission to use a magical investigator - while letting him think the idea was all his.

Twee - BRITISH - excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental.

Фамильяр - дух, прислуживающий ведьме, и принимающий форму животного, обычно кошки.

…Sarah Fenn possesses an inner stillness that feels a lot like power.

Floodlight - прожектор.

Strapline - бегущая строка.

Signet ring - печатка.

Наше молчание - это цена, которую от нас требуют платить за наше спокойствие.

Как мать, потерявшая сына, могу ли я приговорить другую мать и другого ребенка к такой же судьбе? Могу ли я сделать это и остаться человеком? Не следует ли нам сейчас все остановить?

Child-rearing - the process of bringing up a child or children.

Tawdry - showy but cheap and of poor quality - безвкусный.

Stand-your-ground - самооборона.

Cheek-by-jowl - буквально «щека к щеке» - как сельди в банке.

Hoarse - хриплый.

… maintaining the appearance of something can help bring about the reality of it.

I wasn’t happy when Dan started dating Harper. She’s attractive, but hardly daughter-in-law material. No witch folk are. It’s in their nature to be a little… loose… Bea would have been a better match. Harper is strange and free-spirited, always disappearing at weekends. I know that used to drive Dan mad, because she’s never watch his games and cheer him on as a girlfriend should, and they’d fight about it.

She was training herself to stop loving something she couldn’t have.