Quotes from book

The Golden Lily

“It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.”

“But perhaps the best part of all was that I, Sydney Katherine Sage, guilty of constantly analyzing the world around me, well, I stopped thinking.”

“You shook his hand?" Adrian asked incredulously
…
“With all that red-hot passion, it’s a wonder you guys can stay away from each other”

“Is she for real?” He paused and reconsidered. “Are you for real? Spells? Magic? I mean, don’t get me wrong. I drink blood and control people’s minds. But I’ve never heard of anything like this.”

“You were totally unprepared for her.”
“That's for damned sure.”

“You used nunchucks on a moose?"
Wolfe got a haunted look in his eyes. "I used all sorts of things on that bastard.”

“Too bad you got so bogged down in books. You've got the spirit of a warrior.”

“I find prostitutes vastly important.”

“Adrian, I'm on a date. Why are you here? On my car?”

“I'm telling you, I wanted to. But I was trapped. You of all people should know what it's like being caught between groups”

“There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.”

“I wrote back with a quick message:I hit send and received a response back from him almost immediately.”

“Rose never would have done anything like that,' he countered. He paused to reconsider, and I could've sworn there was a hint of a smile there. 'Well at least not in such a public setting.'- Dimitri Belikov”

“He leaned closer to me and then seemed shocked as he realized what he was doing.

"Why would you do that? Why would you do that for me?”

“How was it that Adrian Ivashkov, who never seemed to take anything seriously was the only one among these "responsible" people who paid attention to such small details? How was he the only one to really understand the magnitude of what I was feeling?”

“Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?"
"Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art,… That, and I know how to use a dictionary”

“My commentary's hilarious, not witty.”

“Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising.”

“A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw… safety”