Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

I could pretend, at least, and if I pretended long enough, maybe I could make it into a reality.

This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt Peg had done that. Ginny knew she never would. That either made her someone who worked hard and finished things, or someone who didn't have the guts to break away from the pack. Maybe both.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.