“"You're sure that we'll find someone suitable here?"
"Sure as eggs is eggs," replied Sneezer. "Surer even, eggs not always being what one might expect."”

—  Garth Nix

Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Mister Monday (2003), p. 33.

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