Patricia C. Wrede Quotes
I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something
In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.
Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.
May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!
Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.
Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.
That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.
Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.
Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.
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 little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.
You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.
Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.
Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.
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 reproachfully.
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 that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.
If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good
Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to.
You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?
Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.
Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.
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.
Thank God!" he said, and kissed her.Kissing Mairelon was much nicer than anything she had ever dared to imagine, despite the headache.
Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own fault if he has not got sense enough to see which way the wind is blowing.
Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to.
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 reproachfully.
It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it's a pretty strong possibility, and something that's a whole lot better.
