Quotes / Doctrine of Labyrinths

• Mehitabel, after confessing her espionage to Lord Stephen: "Are you planning to execute me, too? I'd like to know before I make dinner plans."
• Antony Lemerius: "The Lemerii do not consort with wizards."
• Felix as imagined by Mehitabel: "Darling, I wouldn't take you if you came free with a pound of sugar."
• Lord Stephen to Felix: (accusingly) "You appear to have entirely rid the Mirador of ghouls."
  Felix: "Oh, I'm sorry. Did you want to keep them?"
• Felix, in ''The Mirador": "I don't like the dark."
  Mildmay: "Then brother did you pick the wrong place to live."
• Shannon to Felix: "Honestly, Felix, even for you, isn't this a little much? Slumming is one thing— we all do it, powers know— but incest? One would think you were living in the days of the Puppet Kings."
• Felix to Kolkhis, on helping him rescue Mildmay from Malkar: "I suppose that I shouldn't have expected you to help out of the goodness of your heart."
  Kolkhis: "No, you expected me to do it for your brother's pretty green eyes. But that isn't the way it works."
• Felix: "It's just... Prostitution is a filthy business."
  Mildmay: "And you think killing people ain't?"
• Vincent: "I never did figure out where it went wrong. Where I was supposed to start having wondrous adventures and wound up at the Shining Tiger instead. [...] I kept waiting for the young, wealthy nobleman who would see my sterling qualities beneath the hard veneer of whoredom and spirit me away to his palace on Lighthill. But I was never in that story either."
• Felix, to Lord Stephen: "At your service."
  Stephen: "If only that were true."
• Felix to Shannon: "Truly, you are your mother's son, aren't you? But then, there's never been any doubt of that."
• Felix, to Shannon: "What is this?"
  Shannon to Felix, departing to exile: "Felix, I brought you your rings."
  Felix: "Why?"
  Shannon: "Apology. Atonement. Because they are yours, and I would not have them destroyed or given to another."
  Felix:" I am no longer a wizard of the Mirador."
  "Shannon: "These were not given to you by the Mirador, and we have no right to take them away. It is all I can do for you, Felix. Will you not accept it?"
• Shannon to Felix: "Take me back."
  Felix (laughs): "No."
  Shannon: "Why not? Is it because of him"— gesturing toward Gideon— "or him?"— gesturing toward Mildmay.
  Felix (pause): "No. It's because of you."
  * Felix: "I'm given to understand that Thaddeus tore up his letter of amnesty [from the Bastion] on the spot and threatened to feed it to Aias Perrault."
  Gideon: That's Thaddeus. Subtlety is ever his watchword.
• Mehitabel, on the obligation d'âme: "Just because he asked you to do it doesn't mean it was a good idea."
  Felix: "I know that! But he didn't leave me much choice."
  Mehitabel: "No?"
  Felix: "He said it was either that or watch him die."
  Mehitabel: "A stringent ultimatum, to be sure."
• Stephen (jealously clutching Mehitabel): "Every damn puppy in the room is making eyes at you."
  Mehitabel: "They can hardly make anything else. If you bruise me, my lord, you will find yourself looking for another actress."

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