The more he didn’t know, she reasoned, the easier he would be to fool. - Django Wexler

You're a cat," she said automatically.
"Your powers of perception are astounding," the cat drawled. "Although I feel obliged to point out, in the interests of ontological exactitude, that I am in fact only half cat. Personally, though, I have always considered it the better half.

Magic, you’ll find, is nine parts dull to one part excitement, and the exciting bits usually hurt like the blazes.

But didn't that hurt?"
Dex shrugged. "Pain is an illusion. The body is only a clay vessel holding the immortal essence of the soul, so it is a mistake to attach any import to the difficulties it may encounter. In fact, the whole episode reinforced my fundamental understanding of—" She caught Alice's expression. "Yes. It hurt quite a lot.