Цитаты из книг — Ари Мармелл

Сила , чудовище, дух, бог. Сущность, состоящая частью из неземной материи, но также частью из абстракций. Из идей. Это нечто прорастает из страхов людей, которых и без того гнетут естественные опасности и злые духи, и тянет свои цепкие щупальца от горизонта до горизонта, сквозь тучи над головой и тучи кошмаров внутри неё.…

"But now she's claiming to have lost an entire payment, several thousand-weight of gold in value. Since this happened at roughly the same time one of her relatives paid off an outstanding debt to certain criminal interests... Well, you can see how this might arouse my suspicions." "Aroused?" Kallist muttered from behind.…

Зебра знает о существовании льва, но до тех пор, пока он сам не покажет свой облик, пока не бросится на нее с оскаленной пастью, она будет пастись возле водопоя и наслаждаться жизнью.

“I see you’re still going with crows,” Death observed aloud. “Bold choice.” “Your sarcasm is unwelcome here, Horseman,” the Crowfather rasped at him. “Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.”

The heat here, though no more severe than that of the Council’s domain, was unhealthy. It was thick, somehow oily. It left a sticky sheen on the skin that was most assuredly not sweat, and a memory of discomfort in the deepest recesses of the mind. It was the heat of dream-fire. Soul-fire. Hellfire.

"...why were you skulking about in here?" "I," Renard sniffed, "do not skulk. I sneak. I prowl. I have even, upon occasion and at need, been known to lurk. But I have never once--" "--managed to keep silent for two minutes straight," Widdershins interrupted. "Would you shut up and answer the question?"

"This will go easier," he told her, hefting the mallet, "if you don`t fight." "Probably," she agreed, slamming her shins with crushing force up between Brock`s legs and into one of his few tender spots. "But 'easy' is boring." She smiled at the shocked expressions of the other enforcers, even as their boss slid to the…

Thanks for the gold, my lord. I`m sure I`ll enjoy it more than you would. But look on the bright side. Now you won`t be tempted to go out and spend it all, having fun, when you should be at home balancing your books. Sincerely, someone a lot richer than they used to be.

"Of course I`d rather wait a bit longer," she lied, actually fidgeting from foot to foot. "But the night`s not just old, it`s getting arthritic. We have to go now."

...she settled in for what surely would be a long and boring wait. * Long and boring, as it turned out, were ridiculously optimistic. Endless and mind-numbing would have proved more accurate.

The boulevard was the border between two worlds. Behind, the square, squat buildings of the district`s shop. They, like most of the city`s newer construction, were of cheap stone or haphazardly painted wood, all business. Before her, a row of manors. Slope roofs, ornate cornices and buttresses, fluted gutters and snarling…

The table was long, and laden with a quantity of food not merely sufficient to chock a large elephant, but also to bury its remains.

Great humanoid figures, their specific features long since worn away by harsh environs, half emerged from the sides of columns and hills; ancient sentinels, their vigils long ended, left to slowly return to the rock whence they came.

Death had a very simple doctrine for just such a circumstance: When in doubt, strike first and kill everyone.