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I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

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Lying, Deny, Courses

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You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

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Force, Folks, Good Sense

Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.121, Scholastic Inc.

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Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

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Sometimes, Ifs

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Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

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Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Mean

Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.296, Scholastic Inc.

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The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.

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Wizards, Cleaning, Efficiency

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You mean he thinks I'm going to get MORE offers?" Kim said, appalled. "He doesn't seem to be the only one that thinks so." Mairelon said. "Aunt Agatha mentioned it to me yesterday afternoon. Is there anyone, or would you rather I turn the lot of them away?" Kim shook her head. "There isn't anyone." Except you.

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Mean, Aunt, Thinking

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Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

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Eye, Silver, Stealing

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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

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Couple, Iron, Car

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One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down."

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Writing, Ideas, People

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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.

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Mistake, Dragons, Sound

Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “Calling on Dragons”, p.251, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.

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Laughing, Lasts, Doe

Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.770, Open Road Media

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Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

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Worry, Long, Marketing

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Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.

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Marriage, Queens, Mean

Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.334, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Very well. You may help me exterminate the Society of Wizards.

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Wizards, May, Helping

"The Enchanted Forest Chronicles".

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Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to.

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Thinking, Might, Tone

Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.133, Open Road Media

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She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.

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Cutting, People, Tree

Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.114, Open Road Media

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Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.

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Brother, Children, Thinking

Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.

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Morning, Feelings, Together

Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers…at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.

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Children, Book, Eight

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Well?' Jasper said when Mairelon did not reply. 'Who are you?' 'No, no,' Mairelon said. 'I asked you first. I also, if you recall, asked how you found this place and what you intend to do here, and you haven't told me that, either.' 'We might ask you the same thing,' Jasper retorted. 'You might, but I don't recommend it,' Mairelon said. 'You'll get a reputation as a poor conversationalist if you all can do is repeat what other people say to you.

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People, Might, Firsts

Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.135, Macmillan

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There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.

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Knowing, Awkward, Reassuring

Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.278, Open Road Media

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You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

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Doors, Kitchen, Library

Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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