93 Quotes by Patricia C. Wrede

She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.

May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory.

He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you’d rather not.

Sometimes I couldn’t help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.

Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn’t coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.