Richard Due QUOTES

3 " Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.
Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid. "

― Richard Due , The Moon Coin (Moon Realm, #1)

4 " You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn "

― Richard Due , The Moon Coin (Moon Realm, #1)

5 " If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. —Richard Due "

― Richard Due

6 " There is a value to books—unhackable, paper books—that measures far beyond mere ink and paper. "

― Richard Due

7 " But—" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us! "

― Richard Due , The Moon Coin (Moon Realm, #1)

8 " Knowledge is what turns magic from gold into lead. —an I.O.I. axiom "

― Richard Due

9 " I must warn you, my story isn’t a pretty one: abductions, time-traveling dragons, the Order of the Black Fez, highly verbal cats, a secret invisible city, condescending robots (condescending means they talk to you like you’re an Idiot; wait, is it condescending of me to explain what condescending means?), and that’s just for starters. —Willa Snap "

― Richard Due , Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy (Idiot Genius, #1)

10 " I was asked the age old question today: why are you an author? I suppose there are lots of answers to this question that would suffice, but for me there is really only one answer that will do: the blank paper taunts me, and I am weak. "

― Richard Due

11 " I've reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face. "

― Richard Due

12 " Editing is like walking across a room strewn with rose petals and thorns. When you can walk across mostly unbloodied, you're finished. "

― Richard Due

13 " History is always older.
—Black Fez axiom "

― Richard Due , Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy (Idiot Genius, #1)

14 " Never mess with the Fez.” —Heather Peaceout, Black Fez, Second Order "

― Richard Due , Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy (Idiot Genius, #1)

15 " You’d be surprised what an eleven-year-old can get away with.” —Tuppence "

― Richard Due , Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy (Idiot Genius, #1)

16 " Do not stare directly into his eyes!” she warned, in an accent I couldn’t place.
“Why not?” I said, but she was already too late. I was staring directly into his eyes too.
“Because they are dreamy, and endless, and magical. And then when you learn what a terrible boy he is, your heart will turn into a black husk of doom.”
I blinked off the spell of the boy’s eyes.
“Wait, what?” —Nimet Simit and Willa Snap, conversing on the power of Ravenlock Sward's eyes. "

― Richard Due , Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy (Idiot Genius, #1)

17 " Just a cat! Just a cat! I am the stealer of breaths, the walker of shadows, the keeper of nine lives.” —the Magnificent Lady Grayson of the Silky White Underbelly, or Just Grayson for Short "

― Richard Due , Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy (Idiot Genius, #1)

18 " Never bluff with something more powerful than you, Lily. Things more powerful than yourself can feel when your bluff is nothing more than a hollow threat, and they will make it your undoing "

― Richard Due , The Dragondain (Moon Realm, #2)