I know why you’re here, Mr. Zigarowski. Your commitment to repetition makes it nauseatingly obvious. - Brad Meltzer

Sure enough, as Colonel Hsu stepped into his office, she gave him a big thumbs-up with a double pump. She was a politician. If she was leading with charm, bad news was coming.

You say you’re a mortician? You should know better than anyone. Just because you’re not dead doesn’t mean you’re alive.

There are only four different magic tricks: You make something appear. You make something disappear. You make two things change place. Or you change one thing into something else. Everything in magic is a variation on those four.