Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)
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?
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…
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…
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