"– Между прочим я уже замужем за… ох, леший пойми, за кем. Я выходила замуж за одного, но клятвы давала другому. А теперь пообещалась третьему."
For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.
‘Fuck me,’ I said. ‘You can do magic.’
Science doesn’t have all the answers, you know.” “It’s got all the best questions, though,” I said.
James was sitting on the bed with an LP in his hands, and he was caught in the terrible dilemma of the serious vinyl aficionado - he wanted to borrow it, but he knew that if it was his he'd never let it out of the house. He really was close to tears.
"I'm not going to believe you," said Stephanopoulos. "But Constable Grant here is actually paid to believe in this stuff. He also has to believe in faeries and wizards and hobgoblings." "And hobbitses", I said
«Мартенсы», кожаные ботинки на толстой и тяжелой кислотоустойчивой подошве, абсолютно незаменимы в случаях, когда жизненно необходимо отвесить кому-нибудь пинка. Полиция и скинхеды рекомендуют.
Всегда лучше сказать полуправду, чем наполовину солгать.
А как только человек начинает думать о последствиях, то почти всегда успокаивается. Разумеется, кроме случаев, когда он пьян, под кайфом, находится в возрасте от четырнадцати до двадцати одного или же родился в Глазго.
Just as the old telegraph operators could identify each other from the way each one tapped their key, so every practitioner casts a spell in a style unique to themselves. ‘Do I have a signature?’ I asked. ‘Yes,’ said Nightingale. ‘When you practise, things have an alarming tendency to catch fire.’