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“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete.”

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“I was the apprentice of Robert James Bakker. I'm sure you've heard of him. I am a sorcerer. I was there when Bakker died. We... made it happen. I too have met death, and did not have to peel the bones away from my chest to survive the encounter. I am also, and incidentally, the Midnight Mayor, the blue electric angels, the fire in the wire, the song in the telephones, and we are having a bad week. Be smart; fear us.”

The Midnight Mayor Matthew Swift A Madness Of Angels The Neon Court

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“Always be polite to possible murderers: that was the twenty-four-hour-shopping philosophy.”

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“Whoever had said in the guidebooks that the bum bag was a sensible device against theft had lied; no single item of dressware ever invented cried out "mug me" more than a pouch of zip-up plastic suspended by your groin.”

Humor The Midnight Mayor Kate Griffin Fanny Pack Bum Bag

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“I got dressed. You can't be Midnight Mayor in your underpants.”

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“I looked at Judith. "This sounds strange, but I don't suppose you saw three mad women with a cauldron of boiling tea pass by this way?" "No," she replied. The polite voice of reasonable people scared of exciting the madman. "Flash of light? Puff of smoke? Erm..." I tried to find a polite way of describing the symptoms of spontaneous teleportation without using the dreaded "teleportation" word. I failed. I slumped back into the sand. What kind of mystic kept a spatial vortex at the bottom of their cauldrons of tea anyway?”

Humor Tea The Midnight Mayor Kate Griffin Teleportation

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“But it's not healthy!” replied the Hag. “A mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?” “You know, this isn't why we're here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever.” “Yeah,” sighed the Maid, “but I bet a tenner I can make you cry in half a minute.”

Mother Maiden The Midnight Mayor Kate Griffin Hag

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“The whole calamity would be in one of those police reports that D. B. Sinclair and his "concerned citizens" filed carefully under "T" for "Things" at the back of a locked filing cabinet in the vehicle-licensing centre a day before a bonfire got accidentally out of control.”

The Midnight Mayor Kate Griffin Matthew Swift

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“The majority of the employees here are civilians," explained my Alderman guide/protector/companion/would-be-executioner as we strode without a word to the security guards through the foyer towards the lifts. "They conduct themselves within perfectly standard financial services and regulations. There is one specialist suboperational department catering to the financing of more...unusual extra-capital ventures, and the executive assets who operate it have to undergo a rigorous level of training, psyche evaluation, personality assessment, and team operational analyses." We stared at him, and said, "We barely understood the little words." "No," he replied, "I didn't think you would.”

The Midnight Mayor Kate Griffin Matthew Swift Aldermen

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“The armored men counted to three, then burst inside the flat, shouting impressive things like "clear!" or "go go go!" as they did. Oda said, "Gum?" "You chew gum?" "No. but I always carry it, to use as barter when visiting prisons." "Do you see how I'm not asking you?" "Smart.”

The Midnight Mayor Kate Griffin Oda Matthew Swift

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