37 Quotes by Ursula Vernon
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A Poncho of Invisibility is not quite as good as a Cloak of Invisibility, but they’re cheaper and easier to sew.
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The world was hard and fierce, but it also contained tomato sandwiches, and if that didn’t make it a world worth living in, your standards were unreasonably high.
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Rabbit, thought Harriet. Giant Lop, I think, which would make sense. Problem is that once they get to this size, they stop wanting to eat just vegetables.
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Temper is itself an obstacle.
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It’s always nice to have someplace to come home to. At best, it’s a place where you can rest and be refreshed by familiar surroundings and well-loved people. At worst, at least you remember why you wanted to go away on adventures in the first place.
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By the time they had arrived at Danny’s house, neither of them had come up with a plan. Danny had suggested hoping for a snow day. Wendell had pointed out that it was mid-April. Wendell had then suggested that Danny go to the library and actually read about oceans. This idea was met with the contempt it deserved.
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Start at the point where you need me to hit something with a sword.
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It was unprecedented! It was madness! It was just begging for cooties!
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Molly dove into the pastries. It had been a very long walk from the village and she’d been living on sandwiches and a thermos of cold tea. “These are delicious!” she said, around a mouthful of pastry. “Is learning to cook from first husband,” said Cook. “Then is cooking him. Lousy husband. Second husband is chef, much better.
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