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21 " How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules. "
― Patricia C. Wrede , Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (Cecelia and Kate, #1)
22 " Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead. "
― Patricia C. Wrede , Across the Great Barrier (Frontier Magic, #2)
23 " 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. "
24 " NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE "
― Patricia C. Wrede , Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
25 " 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. "
― Patricia C. Wrede , Thirteenth Child (Frontier Magic, #1)
26 " 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. "
― Patricia C. Wrede , The Far West (Frontier Magic, #3)
27 " If you're going to be rude, do it for a reason and get something from it. "
― Patricia C. Wrede , Talking to Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #4)
28 " Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists. "
29 " I'm sorry. I'm used to people objecting to things because they think I can't do them or shouldn't do them. It didn't occur to me that you might have a real reason. "
― Patricia C. Wrede , Searching for Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #2)
30 " May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit! "
― Patricia C. Wrede , The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1-4)
31 " Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters. "
32 " How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else? "
33 " Very well. You may help me to exterminate the society of wizards. "
― Patricia C. Wrede , Calling on Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #3)
34 " She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh. "
― Patricia C. Wrede , The Mislaid Magician; or, Ten Years After (Cecelia and Kate, #3)
35 " 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. "
― Patricia C. Wrede , A Matter of Magic (Mairelon, #1-2)
36 " 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. "
37 " 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. "
38 " I am determined to have the headache Thursday, if I have to hit myself with a rock to do it. "
39 " He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get. "
40 " 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. "