Bee Sting Cake Quotes

“In the first lesson Dominus Lukel had discussed fighting [a dragon] without armour, shield, lance, sword, or proper training. That class had been a roll-call of almost-famous heroes who had died facing definitely-famous dragons.
I had no armour, shield, lance or sword, and as for proper trainig, well… Dominus Lukel didn't pretend he'd ever seen a dragon, much less fought one.
I did, however, have a cake knife.
And an off-set spatula.”
― Victoria Goddard, Bee Sting Cake

“Hal and Mr. Dart exchanged glances, quite as if they had years of friendship behind them, and for a moment my heart rejoiced in the rightness of the moment.”
― Victoria Goddard, Bee Sting Cake

“I sat in a cellar sulkily for a while before I realized that was what I was doing, whereupon I decided that I was not, in fact, fifteen, and decided to stop.”
― Victoria Goddard, Bee Sting Cake

“but I was carrying still carrying the jade crock and my coat, and I didn’t want to over-extend myself before the race. I”
― Victoria Goddard, Bee Sting Cake