The afrit batted his eyelashes with a ostentatious lack of concern. "Indeed? Have you a name?" "A name?" I cried. "I have MANY names! I am Bartimaeus! I am Sakhr al-Jinni! I am N'gorso the Mighty and the Serpent of Silver Plumes!" I paused dramatically. The young man looked blank. "Nope never heard of you. Now if you'll just-
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"?… - Jonathan Stroud
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"?…
- Jonathan Stroud
Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style. - Jonathan Stroud
Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.
Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it. - Jonathan Stroud
Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.
Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit. - Jonathan Stroud
Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, compo… - Jonathan Stroud
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, compo…
One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror. - Jonathan Stroud
One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.
What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation? - Jonathan Stroud
What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?
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 s… - Jonathan Stroud
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 s…
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless s… - Jonathan Stroud
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless s…
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