The Top Ten Quotes We Love from The Forger of Faces

​Our newest book, The Forger of Faces by Catherine Butzen, is out now! This riveting romantasy is book 2 in the Shades of Immortality series. It’s perfect for fans of Ilona Andrews and Isabel Ibañez.

Need a bit more convincing to dive into the book/series? Then read our ten favorite quotes from The Forger of Faces that we’ve compiled below!

1. Aki tapped his thumbnail against his chin. “All right,” he continued. “I want to say something sensitive and helpful and all that shit, but look, I’m way outta my comfort zone here.”

“That’s OK.” She laughed, though her voice shook. “I’m pretty lost here.”

“And somehow the spooky shit got you into a scrap with your creepy boyfriend?”

“He’s not creepy.”

“He’s 200 times your age and dead. The high court of Aki hereby rules that that’s creepy.” Aki mimed pounding a gavel on his knee.


2. “The soul has many parts. The name, the shadow, the breath, the essence. But the unquiet dead are shattered. Part of their soul is damaged. Their mummy destroyed, their names forgotten, and so they are malformed. Wherever they go, their presence is marked by misfortune. Disease, bad luck, withering . . . Ukhedu. There isn’t a word for it in English. Something like inflammation, rot, but deeper. Entropy.”

It sounded crazy, but she’d already seen golems and the walking dead. She’d signed up for crazy when she fell for him. The problem now was in fitting the idea into her head: crazy was a lot nicer when it was all in the past. It was comforting to say she saw zombies, not that she was seeing them.


3. Silence from the shadowy man. Theo’s hands swept another shape from the bench. It landed with a splintering crunch.

Something shifted in the dimness. A black line flashed across Theo’s vision, held in white-sheened hands. Gloves, she thought, and then the cord whipped around her neck.


4. From the mist came the hands. Dozens of them. They lunged weakly from the oncoming tide of mist, groping blindly for the floor or the furniture. They tried and failed to hold on to the solid world around them.

A ragged sigh breathed into Theo’s ear. A breath, a moan of pain.

Please don’t leave us, a voice whispered.


5. “Ha ha ha.” Aki downed another shot. “You suck. What was so funny, anyway?”

“What?”

“Before. When she was over here and you started laughing.”

“That word she called you. In my language, bu means dog.”

“Seriously?” Seth nodded, and Aki considered that. “Wait. So if I call someone my boo . . . then I’m saying they’re my bitch?”

“Technically correct.”

“The best kind of correct! This calls for wings.”


6. He was raised to serve on the pharaoh’s mortal battlefields, not contend on the planes of the gods. His brother Meren might have known what red mist and reaching hands meant, but Meren was dead.

The color red, though. Every son of Kemet knew what red meant. The red desert. Death. Chaos.

Chaos clinging to Theo, and scorpions polluting his dreams. Chaos and poison. He was no priest, but he had to do something, quickly.

Prayer helped some. Action helped more. He stood, grabbed his suit jacket again, and went out.


7. But the edges didn’t fit. The pieces weren’t hers. Two things stitched together, ordered to become one. She clawed at herself, trying to tear away the intruding flesh, but hands tacked these pieces into place and sewed her mouth shut.

Trapped. Trapped. Killed and cut to pieces, broken, rewritten, patched together by the alien hands of a maker she hated more than anything--

Those hands were on her now.


8. “Well,” Aki said, “judging by your incredibly articulate and well-reasoned argument earlier, I’m guessing you and Imhotep had a falling-out.”

Theo wiped her face with a shaking hand. “I don’t know. But . . . things are getting really weird. And I just went off on him. Everything went red.”

“I’ve been there.” Aki shrugged. “Did you hear what they’re trying to do with the banners? They want to reset the title fonts. In Papyrus. I’m not saying I’m gonna kill someone, but my mom knows a guy who owns a pig farm and isn’t gonna ask a lot of questions.”


9. The thought of the nameless dead gripped him. The nameless were broken things, half-made and half-mad, lacking pieces of their souls. Men feared to go among the oldest tombs. Striking a name from a monument condemned that ghost to never reach the realm of the gods.

He, too, was a half-made thing. But he retained his mind, his sanity. His own heart in his chest. If he had gone mad, it was so quietly that he hadn’t realized it.


10. Aki made a face at him. “Touché,” he said. “What’s going on with you guys, anyway? I half expected to walk in on something NC-17. And instead, you’re hot and heavy with the paperwork.”


. . . Hooked yet? Grab a copy here to see how all these quotes are tied together!

The Shades of Immortality series is available in paperback and e-book formats (DRM unlocked) on Amazon, including Kindle Unlimited. Forger stands alone well, but we recommend reading Painter of the Dead first to see how Theo and Seth’s adventures began.

Check out our interview for The Forger of Faces with author Catherine Butzen here, a character interview here, and our initial book review here.


Other articles in our Top 10 Quotes series:
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Painter of the Dead
The Cosmic Turkey
The Star-Crossed Pelican (Cosmic Turkey #2)
Sand to Glass (Mythusian Empire #1)
The Blessed (Mythusian Empire #2)
Bargaining Power
Hunter's Moon
The Disposable (Plot Bandits #1)
The Merry Band (Plot Bandits #2)
The Narrative (Plot Bandits #3)
The Taskmaster (Plot Bandits #4)
Skate the Thief (Rag and Bone Chronicles #1)
Skate the Seeker (Rag and Bone Chronicles #2)
The Land of the Purple Ring

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