Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists. Patricia C. Wrede More Quotes by Patricia C. Wrede More Quotes From Patricia C. Wrede Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the second beggar-woman was a fairy in disguise, but instead of saying that whenever I spoke, diamonds and roses would drop from my mouth, she said that since I was so kind, I would never have any problems with my teeth.” “Really? Did it work?” “Well, I haven’t had a toothache since I met her.” “I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something Patricia C. Wrede teethrosegiving I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons. Patricia C. Wrede businesswritingjobs No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there! Patricia C. Wrede princessdragonslatin No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall. Patricia C. Wrede cloudstryingfall How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else? Patricia C. Wrede ifsknows May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit! Patricia C. Wrede orangepurplefall Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters. Patricia C. Wrede coupleanswersbook I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something Patricia C. Wrede teethmouthsrose Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory Patricia C. Wrede humilitysoulmemories Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down. Patricia C. Wrede easywritingideas Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do. Patricia C. Wrede coursesmake-sensesaid He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get. Patricia C. Wrede medicaldoctorsway In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home. Patricia C. Wrede generationsmotherhome This is the most important lesson you must learn about magic," Miss Ochiba went on. "There are many ways of seeing. Each has an element of truth, but none is the whole truth. If you limit yourselves to one way of seeing, one truth, you will limit your power. You will also place limits on the kinds of spells you can cast, as well as their strength. To be a good magician, you must see in many ways. You must be flexible. You must be willing to learn from different sources. And you must always remember that the truths you see are incomplete. Patricia C. Wrede magicmissinglife In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves. Patricia C. Wrede situationdonewish 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. Patricia C. Wrede brotherchildrenthinking It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked. Patricia C. Wrede togetherfeelingsmorning 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. Patricia C. Wrede cuttingtreepeople Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to. Patricia C. Wrede tonemightthinking 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. Patricia C. Wrede dragonssoundmistake
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