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“The old pain had started up again, throbbing in my chest, stomach, bones. It wasn't healthy to be encased in a body for so long. How humans can stand it without going completely mad, I'll never know.†
† Then again… maybe that explains a lot.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Amulet of Samarkand

The Amulet of Samarkand (2003)

“One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Amulet of Samarkand

Source: The Amulet of Samarkand

“Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Ring of Solomon

Source: The Ring of Solomon

“Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird… but somehow I like his style."

"That is a footstool.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Golem's Eye

Source: The Golem's Eye

“And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Amulet of Samarkand

Source: The Amulet of Samarkand

“Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Golem's Eye

Source: The Golem's Eye

“Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.”

Jonathan Stroud

Source: The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set

“Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Ring of Solomon

Source: The Ring of Solomon

“I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience, I had five thousand and ten. That was the kind of odds that you could do something with.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Amulet of Samarkand

Source: The Amulet of Samarkand

“Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Amulet of Samarkand

Source: The Amulet of Samarkand

“The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.”

Jonathan Stroud book Ptolemy's Gate

Source: Ptolemy's Gate

“He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Amulet of Samarkand

Source: The Amulet of Samarkand

“He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).”

Jonathan Stroud book Ptolemy's Gate

Source: Ptolemy's Gate

“Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Screaming Staircase

Source: The Screaming Staircase

“Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Golem's Eye

Source: The Golem's Eye

“I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered."
"What! How long has it been?"
"Five minutes. I got bored.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Golem's Eye

Source: The Golem's Eye

“Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.”

Jonathan Stroud book Ptolemy's Gate

Source: Ptolemy's Gate

“But Iget afraid. It's just that fear makes me sort of… angry and resentful, and I bite back at it. It's hard to describe."

It isn't hard to describe, you idiot," Aud said. "It's called courage.”

Jonathan Stroud book Heroes of the Valley

Source: Heroes of the Valley

“If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Amulet of Samarkand

Source: The Amulet of Samarkand