65 Quotes by Zen Cho

I might go anywhere and do any magic I pleased if I were Peter, not Prunella.

How could you die and not be old enough to hear about premarital sex? How could you die and still not be allowed to fall in love or be honest? Surely not everything had to wait for university and a good job. Passion and truth had to trump even those things.

The damnable thing about Damerell, thought Zacharias, was that he never failed to observe precisely what you would conceal.

The British are a peculiar race. My grandfather was transported to Malaya because they needed tin, and yet I’ve never once met a Briton to whom the thought had occurred that perhaps I spoke English because I am from one of their colonies. It is as if I were a piece of chess in a game played by people who never look down at their fingers.

Zacharias, my dear, I do not believe I am misled by partiality when I say you are impossible to miss in this room,” said Lady Wythe.

I have always admired your refusal, in the pursuit of your convictions, ever to be constrained by considerations of humanity—much less of ordinary good manners.

Zacharias was never so ill-bred as to say, “I told you so,” but he thought it very loudly.

Shameless, impudent, meddling females, who presumed to set at naught the Society’s prohibition on women’s magic, and duped the common people with their potions and cantrips!

I felt like a fox backed into a corner, with the yelping of the hounds coming closer.