I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

- Patricia C. Wrede

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

- Patricia C. Wrede

Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the …

- Patricia C. Wrede

No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries ju…

- Patricia C. Wrede

You mean I'm going to have to do a spell in front of a bunch of toffs?" Kim said, outraged that no one had mentioned this before she had agreed to th…

- Patricia C. Wrede

News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a…

- Patricia C. Wrede

The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him s…

- Patricia C. Wrede

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

- Patricia C. Wrede

If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good

- Patricia C. Wrede