The Dire King
William Ritter
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I never found a book that did not have at least a little magic in it”
“This world doesn't need showy champions. It needs people who are good, people who do good, even if nobody will ever know.”
“All due respect to Romeo and Juliet, but I don’t think love is sacrifice at all. Real love is when you let another person make you better. You don’t lose yourself in love—you find yourself there.”
“Magic is just magic!” Jackaby threw up his hands. “It’s not inherently special or strange or dangerous! It’s everywhere! It’s already all around you! If just being magical meant that something was dangerous, you’d have long since been killed by a butterfly, or a bubble, or an apple turnover.” “Those things aren’t magical.” “Of course they’re magical! Argh! You infuriating man! If a unicorn came and sat in the corner of your office every day, then by the end of the year you’d be hanging your coat on its horn. There is magic in your life! Not appreciating it does not make it any less magical. Yes, some of that magic is dangerous, but so are scissors and electricity and politics—and plenty of other completely human inventions!”
“We do it by the book, then?" "Precisely. By the book. Yes. Except that there isn't a book." "Right. We do it by a vague but nevertheless tenacious commitment to the book that there isn't.”
“The sight had been Jackaby's beautiful burden and his terrible gift. And now it was mine .... "The Seer is dead," said Alina. "No," I said, swallowing hard. "She's not.”
“I read the first few," said Jackaby. "I've instructed my duck to just file the rest directly under P. I left it to him to decide if that was for politics or paranoia.”
“I learned a long time ago that we do not survive because we’re strong—we become stronger the more we survive.”
“In the heart of hate is nothing dear. The spear grips the hand that grips the spear. Temper the armor, steady the shield. The weapon to fear is the one that you wield, for a Kingdom of Blood is a desolate thing, a dire crown for a dire king.”
“It is a greater travesty by far to see the innocent punished than to watch the guilty go free.”
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