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• I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.

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  Long, Bored, Waiting

  Jonathan Stroud (2004). “The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye”, Disney-Hyperion

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• When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

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  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

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  Running, Sight, Lords And Ladies

  "The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September 30, 2003.

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• What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?

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  Gathering, Drunkenness

  Jonathan Stroud (2009). “Heroes of the Valley”, p.63, Random House

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• Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.

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  Pain, Powerful, Bills

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

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  Fighting, Reality, Ordinary

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• That's usuаllу hоw thеу start, thе young оnеs. Meaningless waffle.

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  Waffles, Young, Meaningless

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• Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing about in the Red Sea. No one heard my hollers. In the end an old fisherman set me free, by which time I was desperate enough to grant him several wishes. I erupted out in the form of a smoking giant, did a few lightning bolts, and bent to ask him his desire. Poor old boy had dropped dead of a heart attack. There should be a moral there, but for the life of me I can't see one.

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  Believe, Heart, Boys

  "Ptolemy's Gate". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September, 2005.

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• The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.

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  Coffee, Boys, Hot

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.

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  Amulets, Samarkand, Enjoy

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.

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  Opportunity, Wife, Skirts

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• Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.

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  Lying, Writing, Joy

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• We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion.) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.

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  Running, Lakes, Ducks

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• It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)

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  Mother, Sweet, Littles

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• I rather think he knew anyway.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Thinking

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Purpose, Clarity

  Jonathan Stroud (2010). “The Ring of Solomon”, p.333, Random House

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• Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me

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  Sorry, Hero, Reality

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• The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts.

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  Wall, Skins, Vigor

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

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  Ghost Stories, Nasty, Protagonists

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