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

- Patricia C. Wrede

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

- 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

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

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

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

Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

- Patricia C. Wrede

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply sm…

- Patricia C. Wrede