Idiot Genius Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“You’d be surprised what an eleven-year-old can get away with.” —Tuppence”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

“Never mess with the Fez.” —Heather Peaceout, Black Fez, Second Order”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

“History is always older.
—Black Fez axiom”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy