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Magician's Ward (Mairelon, #2) QUOTES

Magician's Ward (Mairelon, #2) QUOTES

1 " Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks! "

― Patricia C. Wrede , Magician's Ward (Mairelon, #2)

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

― Patricia C. Wrede , Magician's Ward (Mairelon, #2)

3 " Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do. "

― Patricia C. Wrede , Magician's Ward (Mairelon, #2)

4 " 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 this before she had agreed to this come-out.
"Yes, exactly", Lady Wendall said serenely. "You and Richard have plenty of time to design something that will reflect your unique background, as well as demonstrating your abilities as a wizard. I am looking forward to seeing what you decide upon."
"I could pick everyone's pockets at once with magic, "Kim said, still disgruntled. "That'd 'reflect my unique background', all right". "

― Patricia C. Wrede , Magician's Ward (Mairelon, #2)

5 " Really, Agatha, you might have told me.”
"Told you what?” Mairelon said. “That my ward was once a street thief? I didn’t think it was a secret.”
“A street thief?” Letitia wrinkled her nose and looked at Kim with disfavor. “How horrid.”
“I think it is the most romantic story I have ever heard”, Miss Matthews said with conviction. "

― Patricia C. Wrede , Magician's Ward (Mairelon, #2)

6 " The Marquis of Harsfield Lord Franton, arrived after you left." Lady Endall said with some satisfaction. "He said he wished to be presented to Kim, and was quite dissapointed to find she was not there."
"Harsfield? He must be nearly eighty." Mairelon said, frowning. "What does he want with Kim?"
"No, no, Richard, you're thinking of the fourth Marquis of Harsfield," Lady Wendall said. "He died last year; it is the fifth Marquis who was asking after Kim. He is quite a young gentleman--not much above twenty, I think. He was the grandson of the previous marquis."
"Oh. I expect that's all right, then." Mairelon said, but he continued to frown. "

― Patricia C. Wrede , Magician's Ward (Mairelon, #2)

7 " But the most important thing of all, to which she kept returning like a tongue probing a sore tooth, was the realization that she had fallen in love with her gaurdian. "

― Patricia C. Wrede , Magician's Ward (Mairelon, #2)