Patricia C. Wrede Quotes

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• Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he…
• I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something
• Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory
• In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.
• One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual…
• The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked…
• Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!
• News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it…
• Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?” “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they…
• This is the most important lesson you must learn about magic," Miss Ochiba went on. "There are many ways of seeing. Each has an element…
• He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong…
• Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.
• That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.
• Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did…
• You mean I'm going to have to do a spell in front of a bunch of toffs?" Kim said, outraged that no one had mentioned…
• Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
• Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.
• Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did…
• Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.
• You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

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