Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes.

You can tell me to stop any time you want, but you won't.

Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.

All knowledge hurts.

I don’t know why I ever helped you.” “Because you like broken things.

I need to know you believe me when I say I love you. That is all." "I believe everything you say," Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping doen from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of the dagger, and she yanked it from the belt, smiling as he looked down at her in surprise. "After all," she said, "you weren't lying about the tattoo of the dragon of Wales, were you?