If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

And indeed if you think you’re a genius at something what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you’re no good, you’re not going to get anywhere.

Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

He held out his hand to Sophie, just like Mrs. Pentstemmon, but a little less royally. Sophie levered herself up, wondering if she was meant to kiss this hand or not. But since she felt...

The demon at legth fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sophie knew – or she thought not, until she distinctly heard the word “saucepan” in it several...

What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

City of Wizards is normally quite a GOOD thing, since only Good WIZARDS seem able to live together. . . .There have been cities of EVIL Wizards in the past. You will occasionally come across...

After that, all the while Millie was eating the pudding… we both tore Christopher’s character to shreds. It was wonderful fun…. He drove everyone mad in Chrestomanci Castle by insisting on silk shirts and exactly...

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci seemed not to know. He had heard of Hitler, though he asked Brian...

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Wizard Howl,” said Wizard Suliman. “I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn’t dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.

Take it from me, Fate doesn’t care most of the time.