All Jonathan Stroud Quotes
- Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that. Inspirational
- That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle. Meaningless
- Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him.… Appeared
- Did Lovelace's forces find you? Did Jabor break in?" He spoke slowly through clenched teeth. "I went to get a newspaper" This is getting better… Ask
- He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens. Chickens
- The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough. Been
- The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins-… Disciple
- Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to… Career
- Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me Ago
- Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was… Conjecture
- listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering… Across
- Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity. Clarity
- Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style. Besides
- Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look,… Bear
- I warn you," the boy went on. "I am a magician of great power. I control many terrifying entities. This being you see before you"… Boy
- Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said… All
- It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it… Absolutely
- Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone back and forth… Air
- Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days… Childish
- He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just… Behind
- Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout." "Whithout what? Highness
- Listen," I began, "this is an established,traditional form that-" "Traditional nothing.Where are your clothes?" "Clothes?" I said weakly. "I don't normally bother with them in… Began
- Fiftey years isn't too bad. With luck you might see it happen when your a sweet,old granny,dandling big fat babies on your knee. Actully"-he held… Actully
- Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising. Ah
- And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over… All