222 Quotes by Jonathan Stroud

Oh, we’ll suffer in silence. You’ve given us plenty of practice at that.

That’s just it. I’m the first. And if my venture goes well, and I return to record it, many others will follow after me. There will be a new era between djinn and men. I’ve made some of the notes already, Rekhyt-my book will take pride of place in every library on the Earth. I won’t be there to see it-but who knows, perhaps you will.

Whatever the cost, as long as you’re in my company, be sure I’ll always be there for you.

It was Nathaniel’s boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

Lucy, I’m a malevolent skull, without an ounce of compassion. You’ve got to be worried if I’m feeling sorry for you.

And saw a field mouse whistling through the air in a karate attack position, claws out, hind legs foremost – right at him.

Probing psychological analysis is one thing: namely impartial observation, liberally spiced with sarcasm and personal abuse – let’s face it, I’m good at all that – constructive suggestions, quite another.

I’ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our back, and Lockwood standing in between them, calm and unafraid.

This was classic Lockwood. Friendly, considerate, empathetic. My personal impulse would have been to slap the girl soundly around the face and boot her moaning backside out into the night. Which is why he’s the leader, and I’m not. Also why I have no female friends.