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""No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed.'" "
— Megan Whalen Turner (The King of Attolia)

tags: attolia
34 people liked it

"Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly.
"But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We were very lachrymose. ...Would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head."
"Is that when he cried?"
"He ducked," said Attolia dryly...
"I had not pictured you for a fishwife."
"Lo, the transforming power of love.""
— Megan Whalen Turner (The King of Attolia)

tags: attolia
21 people liked it

"'This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in,' Xenophon said.
'I love stupid plans,' said Eugenides."
— Megan Whalen Turner (The Queen of Attolia)

tags: attolia, gen
17 people liked it

"'I'll be your minister--'
"Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind."
"I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly.
"Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?"
"That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it."
"My earrings?"
"What earrings?""
— Megan Whalen Turner (The Queen of Attolia)

tags: politics
20 people liked it

"All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know your halfway to Methana."
— Megan Whalen Turner (The Thief)

17 people liked it

"Are you badly hurt?"
"Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you."
— Megan Whalen Turner (The King of Attolia)

tags: attolia
43 people liked it

"'I know I would be in the story somewhere,' Eugenides interjected.
'Oh no,' said Phresine, 'This was a humble servant.'
'Ouch.'
'Though very courageous.'
'Not me,' whispered Eugenides to his pillow."
— Megan Whalen Turner (The King of Attolia)

22 people liked it

"'Do you believe me?' he asked.
'Yes,' she answered.
'Do you love me?'
'Yes.'
'I love you.'
And she believed him."
— Megan Whalen Turner (The Queen of Attolia)

4 people liked it

""Will there be poppy juice in it?"
Phresine shook her head.
"Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.""
— Megan Whalen Turner (The King of Attolia)

tags: attolia
5 people liked it

"The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the king closed his eyes and rested his forehead in the hollow of the queen's shoulder, like a man seeking respite, like a man reaching home at the end of the day."
— Megan Whalen Turner (The King of Attolia)

tags: attolia
3 people liked it

"If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

18 people liked it

""I'm going up to my room now, where I may die."
Howl, upon having a cold"
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

7 people liked it

"It's been a pleasure meeting you. Even if you are my least favorite vegetable."
— Sophie Howl's Moving Castle

tags: hayao, miyazaki
3 people liked it

"Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

6 people liked it

"I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!"
— Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)

tags: animals, cheat, humor, people
18 people liked it

"Abdullah: "Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours."
Sophie: "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything."
Abdullah: "Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies."
Sophie: "What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!""
— Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)

tags: abdullah, howl, sophie
11 people liked it

"Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)

tags: fate
23 people liked it

"I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)

tags: dog, humor
37 people liked it

"According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking."
— Jonathan Stroud (Ptolemy's Gate)

tags: amulet-of-samarkand, bartimaeus-trilogy, jonathan-stroud
22 people liked it

"Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style."

"That is a footstool."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Golem's Eye)

tags: humor
21 people liked it

"Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Golem's Eye)

tags: bartimaeus
19 people liked it

"One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror."
— Jonathan Stroud (The Amulet of Samarkand)

tags: amulet-of-samarkand, bartimaeus-trilogy, jonathan-stroud
27 people liked it

"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep."
— Tamora Pierce (In the Hand of the Goddess)

tags: alanna, amusing, favorite, philosophy, pierce, tamora
203 people liked it

"Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again."
— Tamora Pierce

tags: jousting, kel
88 people liked it

""Kel: He says he's changed.
Neal: I suppose he could have changed, I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
Kel: You do look yellow around the edges. I hadn't wanted to bring it up.
Neal: We daffodils like to have things brought up. It reminds us of spring.""
— Tamora Pierce (Page)

tags: kel, neal, page
75 people liked it

"I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is."
— Tamora Pierce

tags: apple, daine, numair, speaker, staghorn, tree, trystan, wolf
63 people liked it

"You are a bloody-minded savage. I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs."
— Tamora Pierce

tags: humourous, neal, owen
53 people liked it

"Military folk. The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick."
— Tamora Pierce

46 people liked it

""When in doubt, shoot the wizard.""
— Tamora Pierce

61 people liked it

"You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else."
— Tamora Pierce

25 people liked it

"Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello"
— Tamora Pierce (Page)

31 people liked it

"There are plenty of fish in the sea besides Prince Jonathan, and this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."
— George via Tamora Pierce

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"Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do."
— Tamora Pierce (Trickster's Choice)

10 people liked it

""Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the night, "I shan't marry the prince." I turned back into the hall and ran to Char and threw my arms about his neck. "I shan't marry you." I kissed his cheek. He was safe from me."
— Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted)

tags: humor, romance
32 people liked it

"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge
233 people liked it

"If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

tags: humor
182 people liked it

"'Hey, look - your *girlfriend* is saying something.'
Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl? "
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony)

tags: girlfriend, humor, insults, puberty
87 people liked it

"I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl Boxed Set)

90 people liked it

"A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

tags: holly-short
66 people liked it

"Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

tags: accept, artemis, fowl, goblin, stupid
69 people liked it

"No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony)

tags: humor, men
43 people liked it

"If I win I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm mad. That is the way history was written. "
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl 1-3.)

13 people liked it

"Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead."
— Robin McKinley (Rose Daughter)

23 people liked it

"He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough."
— Robin McKinley (The Hero and The Crown)

tags: humor-ish-
19 people liked it

"There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance."
— Robin McKinley (The Blue Sword)

13 people liked it

"You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration. "
— Robin McKinley (The Blue Sword)

7 people liked it

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