Jonathan Stroud Quotes

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

Lockwood didn’t speak until everything was quiet again. “I know you’re worrying about me, Luce,” he ...

I—though forced through lack of space to assume the form of a stoic guinea pig crouched between the ...

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delig...

To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that w...

It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, six...

The mole dug its way deep, deep down, under the foundations of the wall. No magical alarm sounded, t...

The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's ...

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an i...

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

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under th...

Ah, two firm friends, reunited at last! There should be sweet violin music playing for us, but I'll ...

I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely ...

In my youth, I was always one for the dramatic entrance. Now, in keeping with my character, I gravit...

His rapier was at his belt, glittering as he swung. He reached down, ripped the sword clear. I jumpe...

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he...

The Evasive Cartwheel ™ © etc., Bartimaeus of Uruk, circa. 2800 B.C.E. Often imitated, never surpass...

There was a profound silence, abruptly broken by an enormously loud rumble from George's stomach. Pl...

When you go out hunting wicked spirits, it's the simple things that matter most. The silvered point ...

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

Lockwood gave a sudden exclamation; when I looked at him, his eyes were shining. 'On second thoughts...

Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your f...

This is what the Problem means,” he went on. “This is the effect it has. Lives lost, loved ones take...