# The Forbidden Library

- Author: [Django Wexler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler.md)
- Quotes: 13
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library

## Quotes

> Magic, you’ll find, is nine parts dull to one part excitement, and the exciting bits usually hurt like the blazes.

p. 159 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/magic-youll-find.md)

> “You’re a cat,” she said automatically.
>
> “Your powers of perception are astounding,” the cat drawled. “Although I feel obliged to point out, in the interests of ontological exactitude, that I am in fact only half cat. Personally, though, I have always considered it the better half.”

p. 77 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/youre-a-cat.md)

> But—though she was not an expert on cats—she was fairly certain that they did not, as a rule, snicker.

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/but-though-she-was.md)

> The sum total of Alice’s medical knowledge was that blood was supposed to stay on the inside.

p. 328 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/the-sum-total.md)

> “Patience, my friend.”
>
> “I’m not your friend. And I’m not patient.”

p. 66 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/patience-my-friend.md)

> “I still say they’re creepy,” Ashes said.
>
> “I don’t think you get to decide what’s creepy,” Alice said. “You’re a talking cat. You’re creepy. This whole place is creepy.”

p. 169 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/i-still-say.md)

> Some things are more important than following the rules.
>
> Aren’t they?

p. 71 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/some-things-are.md)

> “What do you see here?”
>
> “Books?”
>
> “Indeed, books. They are the ocean in which magic swims.”

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/what-do-you.md)

> In desperation, she slid her fingers in the cracks between blocks, looking for some kind of catch or hidden mechanism. Which was ridiculous, she thought, because how complicated could a secret door be if a cat figured it out?

p. 75 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/in-desperation-she.md)

> “When you’re as old as I am,” Ending said, “one’s nature is largely a product of habit.”

p. 357 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/when-youre-as-old.md)

> He was, of course, cheating her, that was what lawyers were for.

p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/he-was-of-course.md)

> At that age, Alice had grasped the idea that some things in books were real, and others were not.

p. 6 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/at-that-age.md)

> 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 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-forbidden-library/after-the-cousins.md)