Knock Three Times Quotes

“Notice how the crucible of the story changes those who listen to it, those who are within it, and the person who is telling it, all at the same time.”
― Cressida Cowell, Knock Three Times

“But sometimes it isn't the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.”
― Cressida Cowell, Knock Three Times

“ALL children are spectacularly gifted and learning should be for everyone!”
― Cressida Cowell, Knock Three Times

“Crusher took off their shoes. Xar wasn’t wearing any shoes anyway because he had left the Learning Place for Gifted Wizards dressed as a hob. Crusher walked ahead a few steps and carefully laid down his shoes in the grass at the edge of the beach. And for the first time the children noticed that all along the outer perimeter of the shore, higher than the tide could reach, was a line of shoes patiently waiting for their owners to come back. Some of them had been waiting a long, long time. Their leather was wind-battered, storm-eaten, half-broken and buried in the sand. Others looked perkier and more hopeful, as if their owners had only just taken them off and were about to return. ‘Not very many people come back to collect their ssshooessssss …’ squeaked Bumbleboozle in nervous alarm. Ariel’s eyes gleamed green and then red. ‘Particularly when you conssssider these are the shoes of some of the greatest Wizards in the wildwoods … ’ They couldn’t find Bodkin’s shoes, so they weren’t sure if he had got there before them or not. Crusher picked up the small boat, carefully carried it across the beach and put it gently in the water. The others followed in his giant footsteps. There were will-o’-the-wisps flying right out of the bogs and on to the beach in a glorious firework display, singing and taunting and pulling the hair of the sprites. Will-o’-the-wisps are mean little faeries that sprites hate”
― Cressida Cowell, The Wizards of Once: Knock Three Times: Book 3

“SSSSSCCCCRRIIIIIIITCH!!!!!!!!!”
― Cressida Cowell, The Wizards of Once: Knock Three Times: Book 3

“lo!”
― Cressida Cowell, The Wizards of Once: Knock Three Times: Book 3

“There was always a little hiss or a frizzle in the atmosphere when these two met, a sort of jarring in the universe more noticeable on the outside than on the in, but if it were possible for the air to suddenly darken as if internal thunderclouds were gathering, then it did, and a couple of the candles blew out, just like that.”
― Cressida Cowell, Knock Three Times

“Encanzo's face, so stern, so sad, turned young and eager for a second, like clouds lifting on a darkened hillside. It was as if, after all these years, the distant ghost of a young Warrior princess had arrived at the hut of his younger self, the poor Wizard-who-waits, and he lifted up his head, and there in the doorway... there she was.”
― Cressida Cowell, Knock Three Times