Quotes By Author: jonathan stroud

“Death is fugitive; even when you’re watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don’t get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you’ve missed it.”

“Check out that one at the end. He’s taken the form of a footstool. Weird…but somehow I like his style.””That is a footstool.”

“Can you define “plan” as “a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance”? If so, it was a very good plan.”