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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “So she was well proportioned. So her hair was all glossy. So she looked as if her lips had never been the wrong side of a second doughnut in her life. What was any of that to me?”

151. “So she was well proportioned. So her hair was all glossy. So she looked as if her lips had never been the wrong side of a second doughnut in her life. What was any of that to me?”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “It was as if all the light and love it had gathered in the past was shining out on me.”

152. “It was as if all the light and love it had gathered in the past was shining out on me.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “His dark eyes sparkled as he looked into mine. In that instant it was as if nothing in the world fascinated him as much as me.”

153. “His dark eyes sparkled as he looked into mine. In that instant it was as if nothing in the world fascinated him as much as me.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “At last, he was being decisive once again. Playing for the highest stakes, shrugging off the inertia of the last few years. He felt almost as he had done as a child, thrilling in the audacity of his actions. That was how it had often been before politics and the stultifying role of John Mandrake had closed in on him. And he no longer wished to play that part.”

154. “At last, he was being decisive once again. Playing for the highest stakes, shrugging off the inertia of the last few years. He felt almost as he had done as a child, thrilling in the audacity of his actions. That was how it had often been before politics and the stultifying role of John Mandrake had closed in on him. And he no longer wished to play that part.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “He slouched, he slumped, he scuffed his way about the house like something soft about to melt.”

155. “He slouched, he slumped, he scuffed his way about the house like something soft about to melt.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “He smiled at us; we smiled at him. Three crocodiles on a muddy shore could not have smiled at each other more eloquently or with such gleaming teeth.”

156. “He smiled at us; we smiled at him. Three crocodiles on a muddy shore could not have smiled at each other more eloquently or with such gleaming teeth.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “The rest were rubbish compared to me.”

157. “The rest were rubbish compared to me.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “The adult supervisors had zero psychic sensitivity and, since they were mortally afraid of going anywhere near an actual Visitor, never ventured far into a haunted zone. Instead, they hung around on the sidelines, being old and useless, and shouting orders that were utterly out of sync with whatever was going on.”

158. “The adult supervisors had zero psychic sensitivity and, since they were mortally afraid of going anywhere near an actual Visitor, never ventured far into a haunted zone. Instead, they hung around on the sidelines, being old and useless, and shouting orders that were utterly out of sync with whatever was going on.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “What I mean is, we’re not necessarily going to run into trouble here. Despite its history of violent death.”

159. “What I mean is, we’re not necessarily going to run into trouble here. Despite its history of violent death.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “There was a quality about him – fragile, but at the same time steely and undaunted – that managed to awaken your sense of pity without irritating you at the same time. In a world where no kid can really afford to be helpless, where most of us risk our lives in a matter of course, that was quite a hard balance to achieve.”

160. “There was a quality about him – fragile, but at the same time steely and undaunted – that managed to awaken your sense of pity without irritating you at the same time. In a world where no kid can really afford to be helpless, where most of us risk our lives in a matter of course, that was quite a hard balance to achieve.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “Lucy, you look delightful,” he said. “George, you’ll have to do. Oh, here’s something for you, Luce. Might go well with that excellent dress.” He took my hand and placed in it a necklace of pretty silver links, with a small diamond suspended as a pendant. It was really very beautiful. “What?” I stared at it. “Where’d you get this?” “Just something I had. I suggest you close your mouth when you wear it-it’s more elegant that way.”

161. “Lucy, you look delightful,” he said. “George, you’ll have to do. Oh, here’s something for you, Luce. Might go well with that excellent dress.” He took my hand and placed in it a necklace of pretty silver links, with a small diamond suspended as a pendant. It was really very beautiful. “What?” I stared at it. “Where’d you get this?” “Just something I had. I suggest you close your mouth when you wear it-it’s more elegant that way.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “There’s nothing like imminent disaster for putting an end to bickering.”

162. “There’s nothing like imminent disaster for putting an end to bickering.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “He had a very slender face, with a long nose and a dark mop of unruly hair.”

163. “He had a very slender face, with a long nose and a dark mop of unruly hair.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “A window to the Other Side.”

164. “A window to the Other Side.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “The echoes had faded, and now the eager silence of the house rose to enfold us like the waters of a well.”

165. “The echoes had faded, and now the eager silence of the house rose to enfold us like the waters of a well.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “I was simply happy to have the chance to be with them again.”

166. “I was simply happy to have the chance to be with them again.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “What kind of life was it, to sit dumbly in the dark, in living fear of death? Better to go out and face it, head-on.”

167. “What kind of life was it, to sit dumbly in the dark, in living fear of death? Better to go out and face it, head-on.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “Their first stop, naturally, was the library.”

168. “Their first stop, naturally, was the library.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “A small plinth sat on the wall between the central windows. On it was a marble bust of a stern, well-fed Victorian-looking man sporting an enormous pair of muttonchop whiskers. I went to take a look.”

169. “A small plinth sat on the wall between the central windows. On it was a marble bust of a stern, well-fed Victorian-looking man sporting an enormous pair of muttonchop whiskers. I went to take a look.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “Piano player’s gone,” Scarlett said. “That’s always a bad sign.”

170. “Piano player’s gone,” Scarlett said. “That’s always a bad sign.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “To be fair, since meeting her that morning she’d treated me with careful attention and respect; but since the same could also be said of a gloved scientist holding a blob of plague bacillus on a glass slide, I didn’t read too much into it.”

171. “To be fair, since meeting her that morning she’d treated me with careful attention and respect; but since the same could also be said of a gloved scientist holding a blob of plague bacillus on a glass slide, I didn’t read too much into it.”

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Jonathan Stroud Quote: “You could stuff a cushion with all that hair. I wonder if – ” “Hold it!” I said.”

172. “You could stuff a cushion with all that hair. I wonder if – ” “Hold it!” I said.”

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