93 Quotes by Patricia C. Wrede

If you’re going to be rude, do it for a reason and get something from it.

Mendanbar wondered idly whether a bucket of soapy water plus lemon juice plus dishes would be as good for melting a wizard as one without dishes, and what effect the dishes would have on the process. Being melted was probably not very comfortable, but being melted while cups and plates and forks were falling on your head was likely to be even less so.

Men can be such provoking creatures. One would think the entire world and everything in it were made only for their enjoyment and approval.

He wasn’t a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

Tis my will that thou and he shall die by my hand. Thou hast but to choose the manner of thy death.” “Old age,” Cimorene said promptly. “Mock.

Very well. You may help me to exterminate the society of wizards.

We must clearly do something.

Always be polite to a dragon. It’s harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

If a beauty like Letitia Tarnower couldn’t interest Mairelon, and a brilliant wizard like Renee D’Auber hadn’t attracted him in all the years they’d known one another, what chance did she, Kim, have?