93 Quotes by Patricia C. Wrede

Murphy is a writer’s best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he’ll steal the silver.

It’s a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it’s a pretty strong possibility, and something that’s a whole lot better.

Thanking all her lucky stars individually and by name, Cimorene twisted and scrambled to her feet, sword ready.

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

Being upset is no excuse,” Mother said sternly. “If you’re going to be rude, do it for a reason and get something from it.

She probably enjoys cutting up everyone’s happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.

Magic and music are brother and sister,” he replied as Starbrow picked his way through the fog. “The bard’s craft has always been half magic; in times past minstrels and magicians were often one and the same. Perhaps it is because we must sing so frequently of the old days and the magic of them that we do.

Rennie didn’t quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

I’m sorry. I’m used to people objecting to things because they think I can’t do them or shouldn’t do them. It didn’t occur to me that you might have a real reason.