222 Quotes by Jonathan Stroud

Well, with luck we’ll miss the beginning of the performance.

Okay, maybe I’d been a little ratty, but there’s something about rotting corpses leaping at my face that puts me a bit on edge.

Do you remember,” George went on, “what we found in the tunnels beneath Aickmere’s? Aside from a massive pile of human bones.” “I found Lucy,” Lockwood said.

The short, fat fingers moved like dancing sausages across the strings;.

Strange how sometimes you make a particular choice. When it’s not a specific thought or line of argument that decides you, but more a set of jumbled sensations that changes your mind.

She was so radiant, it was like the other-light was already on her.

Okay, well, if you do want to come with me, Luce, I’ll be in the hall.” He went to the door, paused, and grinned back at me. “And don’t forget to sign the statement!” With that, he was pattering down the stairs.

I wasn’t pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn’t my profession.

Ignoring the whispers of the skull, which kept suggesting different, unlikely kitchen utensils that could be used for murder, I sketched out a map of the room.