“You evah hear of a magic screw?'I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.”

“Did you hear? You are free."Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.”

“Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.”

“Corrupt my brother, will you? I'll see you in hell first, sir.”

“Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.”

“Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.'They will remain protected,' Asha insists.No, 'I say. 'Only untested.”

“It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.”