12 Quotes by Ness Kingsley

Toads are to dragons what carrots are to unicorns.

I was therefore forced to draw the only possible conclusion; I was going to be heinously murdered.

I hope so,” grumbled Ian. “I’m going to look for another one of ‘em winged dogs for Mabel.

Instead she looked very hard at the woman's chin. On it was a single white hair - visible even in the heavy dusk - that closely resembled a piece of thread hanging off a scrap of fabric. The woman forgot about Rusty for a moment. "I call her Hephzibah," she said with pride. "It's taken years for her to grow.

Out of all the things you would expect when facing a dragon, silence was not on the list. Roaring? Certainly! Snarling? Why, yes - of course! Fire-breathing? Couldn’t possibly do without it. Wouldn’t feel right if it wasn’t there.But silence?No. Definitely not.It was as out of place as a potter at a blacksmith’s.

Hold on, hold on, hold on,” said the Hooded Person of Unknown Gender. “Are you really here to slay a dragon?”“Yes! Why else would I be so far from home?”“Sightseeing?” suggested the Female.

If someone begins to sing, do not maintain eye contact. The general advice given to fellow travellers is thus: leg it.

Sounds like a jolly good adventure – rather frightening too, I must say. Fortunate that I was tootling past, say what? Come now, you must be in a bit of a fix. Why don’t you hop aboard and I’ll take you back to Lucille in a jiffy and we’ll have a cuppa and a meeting of the old grey matter, what!”Donald shuffled next to Ralph’s side. Out of the corner of his mouth, he whispered: “What’s he saying?

Think, think … fog and storm … transported into a mystical land …”“I doubt that,” said Ralph. Several feet away from him lay a sea gull’s carcass. “It’s not really very mystical.