"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."
— Patricia C. Wrede (Calling on Dragons)

"Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!"
— Patricia C. Wrede (Magician's Ward)

"I didn't ask what you'd said about it," the frog snapped. "I asked what you're going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things."
— Patricia C. Wrede (Dealing with Dragons)

"News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily."
— Patricia C. Wrede (The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After: Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the Realm)