Deatheguard > Deatheguard's Quotes

“Do you ever see yourself acting crazy, but you can’t stop because you’re not a quitter?”
― Abby Jimenez, The Friend Zone

“I was meaning to be kind to you this evening, but you make it very difficult.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“My mother says that laundry breeds if you don’t wash it.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“But I want to read a book!" Charmain protested.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“The most she knew about gardens was the Bakers’ own backyard, which contained one large mulberry tree and a rosebush, plus the window boxes where her mother grew runner beans. She knew there was earth under the plants and that the earth contained worms. She shuddered.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“My mother brought me up to be respectable,” she said. “She never let me near the scullery, or the kitchen either.”
“I don’t believe this!” Peter said. “Why is it respectable not to know how to do things? Is it respectable to light a fire with a bar of soap?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“In the study, The Book of Palimpsest was, for some reason, now open at "A Spell to Find Yourself a Handsome Prince." Charmain shook her head and closed the book. "Who needs a prince?" she said.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“It was closely printed in long paragraphs that mostly seemed to begin, “If we extrapolate from our findings in my earlier work, we find ourselves ready to approach an extension of the paratypical phenomenology…” No, Charmain thought. I don’t think we are ready.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“All I wanted to do was sit down and read a book, she thought, and I come home to a flood!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“Charmain disliked blood almost as much as she disliked earthworms.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“She hadn’t even said that she loved books more than anything else in the world, although this was perfectly true.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“Er... did you hear us, dear?" Mrs. Baker said anxiously.
"No," Charmain said with her mouth full. "What?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

“Nothing was more frightening than a smart woman with a vendetta and a plan.”
― Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer

“People like me don't change the world. We just survive it.”
― Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer

“I will always be in your debt. If I am anyone’s knight now, I am yours. Your protector, your brother, uncle, father, villain. Whatever you need me to be, I’ll be it.”
― Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer

“If you do not find yourself a galaxy, it is not so bad to find yourself a star.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Nonagesimus,” she said slowly, “the only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted someone to hold the sword as you fell on it. The only job I’d do for you would be if you wanted your ass kicked so hard, the Locked Tomb opened and a parade came out to sing, ‘Lo! A destructed ass.’ The only job I’d do would be if you wanted me to spot you while you backflipped off the top tier into Drearburh.”

“That’s three jobs,” said Harrowhark.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“He had the eyes of a very beautiful person, trapped in resting bitch face.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Harrow,” said Gideon, “if my heart had a dick you would kick it.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Smart goblins became mechanics. Dumb goblins became soldiers. Really dumb goblins became officers.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nine Goblins

“Travelling through thick woods with a troop of goblins is not unlike a nature hike with a group of grumpy toddlers with weapons.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nine Goblins

“All you had were pigs and enthusiasm. It’s not your fault.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nine Goblins

“War is just not efficient.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nine Goblins