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“Some people see a magic trick and say, 鈥業mpossible!鈥� They clap their hands, turn over their money, and forget about it ten minutes later. Other people ask how it worked. They go home, get into bed, toss and turn, wondering how it was done. It takes them a good night鈥檚 sleep to forget all about it. And then there are the ones who stay awake, running through the trick again and again, looking for that skip in perception, the crack in the illusion that will explain how their eyes got duped; they鈥檙e the kind who won鈥檛 rest until they鈥檝e mastered that little bit of mystery for themselves. I鈥檓 that kind.鈥�
鈥淵ou love trickery.鈥�
鈥淚 love puzzles. Trickery is just my native tongue.”
― Six of Crows
鈥淵ou love trickery.鈥�
鈥淚 love puzzles. Trickery is just my native tongue.”
― Six of Crows

“Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.”
― John Dies at the End
― John Dies at the End

“Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.”
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“Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table.
Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!?
Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?”
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Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!?
Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?”
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“WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one鈥檚 perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that鈥檚 the trick.”
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“You said that you thought Queen Orlagh was waiting for an advantage to declare war. Instead, I think she is trying a new ruler鈥攐ne she hopes she can trick or replace with another indebted to her. She thinks me young and feckless and means to take my measure.鈥�
鈥淪o what?鈥� I ask. 鈥淥ur choice is to endure her games, no matter how deadly, or engage in a war we cannot win?鈥�
Cardan shakes his head and drinks another cup of tea. 鈥淲e show her that I am no feckless High King.鈥�
鈥淎nd how do we do that?鈥� I ask.
鈥淲ith great difficulty,鈥� he says. 鈥淪ince I fear she is right.”
― The Wicked King
鈥淪o what?鈥� I ask. 鈥淥ur choice is to endure her games, no matter how deadly, or engage in a war we cannot win?鈥�
Cardan shakes his head and drinks another cup of tea. 鈥淲e show her that I am no feckless High King.鈥�
鈥淎nd how do we do that?鈥� I ask.
鈥淲ith great difficulty,鈥� he says. 鈥淪ince I fear she is right.”
― The Wicked King

“It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.”
― Emma
― Emma

“It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.”
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“Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all go through. The trick is to celebrate the good times in advance of the difficult times. Always remember, good times await you after the difficult times pass鈥�.”
― The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
― The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.”
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“I bet you could catch bullets,鈥� she said, and threw the stick away. 鈥淗ow do you do that?鈥�
鈥淏y not being human,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 why you could never trick a bear. We see tricks and deceit as plain as arms and legs. We can see in a way humans have forgotten. But you know about this; you can understand the symbol reader.”
― The Golden Compass
鈥淏y not being human,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 why you could never trick a bear. We see tricks and deceit as plain as arms and legs. We can see in a way humans have forgotten. But you know about this; you can understand the symbol reader.”
― The Golden Compass

“Perhaps you are making a cat's paw of me with Phillotson all this time. Upon my word it almost seems so--to see you sitting up there so prim.”
― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure

“And that is why, when he finally did come across the street, I lit my cigarette with my lighter - not to make him feel like a fool who had fallen for a trick, but rather because he had said, 'you had better luck with matches,' when in fact I had not. It was not the matches that brought him across the street. It was the matches that kept him on the bench.”
― The Instructions
― The Instructions

“It smells all right; it makes your head go round; it catches your breath; you feel ticklish all over - and not the faintest clue how it's done. The man's a sorcerer; the thing's a conjuring trick, it's a miracle,"...”
― Swann鈥檚 Way
― Swann鈥檚 Way

“You know, I used to have this theory that if I wanted something badly enough, the universe would make sure to keep it just out of my reach. Like a cruel joke, or a trick. But聽.聽.聽. maybe the cruelest trick the universe can play on us is to give us exactly what we wish for.”
― I Am Not Jessica Chen
― I Am Not Jessica Chen

“You played us." His teeth ground together. He could love the result and still hate the method of it.”
― The Alice Curse
― The Alice Curse

“Any skilled con artist knows the key to deceiving your mark is to get them to believe your scheme was their idea. Translation: The key to getting people to follow you is to convince them they aren鈥檛 following anyone at all.”
― Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did
― Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

“Some of the cunning you got, some of the mustard, some of the sense... well, you got it from me. Didn't you? So don't any of you go thinking you can be artful about this, because when it comes to cunning I am Mister Fox.”
― Monstrous Regiment
― Monstrous Regiment
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