“"Take that stupid grin off your face," he said. "You're putting me off."
"Sorry." I adopted a hideous expression of malady and woe.
"That's not much better."”

—  Jonathan Stroud, book The Amulet of Samarkand

The Amulet of Samarkand (2003)

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