Quotes
Magic, you’ll find, is nine parts dull to one part excitement, and the exciting bits usually hurt like the blazes.
p. 159
“Patience, my friend.”
“I’m not your friend. And I’m not patient.”
p. 66
Some things are more important than following the rules.
Aren’t they?
p. 71
“What do you see here?”
“Books?”
“Indeed, books. They are the ocean in which magic swims.”
p. 139
“When you’re as old as I am,” Ending said, “one’s nature is largely a product of habit.”
p. 357
He was, of course, cheating her, that was what lawyers were for.
p. 19
At that age, Alice had grasped the idea that some things in books were real, and others were not.
p. 6
After the cousins came the accountants, who were more open in their appraisals and didn’t bother with Alice at all, and after the accountants, like a Biblical plague building up to a big finish, came the lawyers.
p. 16
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