No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, yo...
Master Richard! Hunch’s voice was not loud, but it expressed volumes of scandalized disapproval.Mairelon paused and looked up. What is it?You ain’t going to just— Hunch stopped and looked at Kim. Not...
He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.
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.
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 h...
Seriously, if you really, truly don’t understand basic terminology (which was at least half my problem with the adult-level beginner books), the children’s section is the place to go.
You don’t understand, Mairelon said dully. Kim doesn’t want to marry a toff. Was that what was bothering him? Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nod cocks! Kim said wi...
You must have misunderstood, Keredwel said severely. No one volunteers to be a dragon’s princess. It isn’t done. Actually, Alianora’s quite right, Cimorene said as she set the teacups in front of her...
Your levity is unbecoming, Richard, and not at all the point,' Mrs Lowe said, giving him a stern look.'In another week, the Season will be upon us, and as you have chosen to come to Town for once, I s...
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