Patricia C. Wrede Quotes - Page 2

• Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

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  Hero, World, Combination

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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• That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

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  Looks, Matter, Way

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• 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.

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  Past, Littles, Kim

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.69, Macmillan

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• ¿Quieres decir que voy a tener que hacer un hechizo delante de un montón de bobos?". dijo Kim, indignada de que nadie se lo hubiera mencionado antes de que aceptara esta salida. "Sí, exactamente", dijo Lady Wendall con serenidad. "Richard y tú tenéis tiempo de sobra para diseñar algo que refleje vuestro singular origen, además de demostrar vuestras habilidades como magos. Estoy deseando ver lo que decidís". "Podría robarle a todos a la vez con magia, "dijo Kim, todavía disgustada. "Eso 'reflejaría mi origen único', de acuerdo".

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  Mean, Unique, Decide Upon

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.305, Macmillan

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• Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

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  Eye, Silver, Stealing

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• You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

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  Force, Folks, Good Sense

  Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.121, Scholastic Inc.

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• I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

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  Lying, Deny, Courses

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• Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

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  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Mean

  Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.296, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

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  Sometimes, Ifs

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• She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.

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  Cutting, People, Tree

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• 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

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  Couple, Iron, Car

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• Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

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  Worry, Long, Marketing

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• She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.

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  Laughing, Lasts, Doe

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.770, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Glasses, Waiting, Looks

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.344, Scholastic Inc.

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• Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers…at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.

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  Children, Book, Eight

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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 had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.

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  Marriage, Queens, Mean

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.334, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.

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  Morning, Feelings, Together

  Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• Very well. You may help me exterminate the Society of Wizards.

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  Wizards, May, Helping

  "The Enchanted Forest Chronicles".

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• I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward is *exactly* the sort of usual scandal I had in mind: I wonder it didn't occur to me before.

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  Voice, Advice, Mind

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• 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.

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  Wizards, Cleaning, Efficiency

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Might, Tone

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Dragons, Sound

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “Calling on Dragons”, p.251, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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