The Witch’s Brat by Sutcliff

Alyosha – 19 hours ago  » 

*grins* Oooh, you have no idea what you’re asking for. Just wait until Owan shows up

*starts laughing* I’m here! Now, which books have you reviewed that I have favorite quotes from? Forgive my if some of mine match Alyosha’s. It happens.

Let’s see…I’ll try not to post every single one of my favorite quotes from your reviewed books. *starts filtering*

“Be careful of health books; you can die of a misprint.” — Mark Twain

(Does this count? You have reviewed a few of his books…)

“This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, ‘thus the sad days passed slowly by’–or ‘the years rolled on their weary course’–or ‘time went on’–because it is silly; of course time goes on–whether you say so or not. So I shall just tell you the nice, interesting parts–and in between you will understand that we had our meals and got up and went to bed, and dull things like that.” — E. Nesbit, The Treasure Seekers

“But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

“Perhaps it’s rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.” — Donita K. Paul, DragonSpell

“People think six is a great many, when it’s children. …they don’t mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.” — E. Nesbit, The Treasure Seekers

“‘Come close now,’ ordered Fenworth. ‘Time for an exit. I think we’ll whirl, Kale likes to whirl. Hold hands. Let’s stay together, children. I want no one lost.'” — Donita K. Paul, DragonSpell

“Gymn says your fine. He’s examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking.” — Donita K. Paul, DragonSpell

“He fainted. Then he came to and remembered what happened and fainted again.” — Donita K. Paul, DragonSpell

“Most uncomfortable! Did we lose anyone? Head count! Lee Ark, Leetu, and Brunstetter. Three. Should we count the meech egg? No, I think not. Don’t drop it, Brunstetter. I’m to take it home and raise it. Ridiculous. Being a parent at my age. Where were we? Oh, yes, three. One o’rant, two kimens, two minor dragons. Eight. A librarian and a diplomat. Ten.” — Donita K. Paul, DragonSpell

“To the wise, a prick on the finger avoids a hole in the heart.” — Donita K. Paul

“‘It’s a wisdom that comes from seeing how things work. Things you want to happen always take a long time.’ She pointed one little finger at the meech dragon and shook it in his face. ‘You may read books and know bunches, but I have lived life longer than you.'” — Donita K. Paul, DragonQuest

“A mouse slid out from under his hat and scrambled down his sleeve, across his lap, and down to the floor.

‘Nothing,’ said Fenworth, ‘should distract from a wizard’s dignity.'” — Donita K. Paul, DragonQuest

“‘Wouldn’t it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?’

‘That would be the easiest transformation, but Risto is above doing something simple.’

‘Still, I’d be happier if Dibl would quit eating those bugs. Dibl, stop it. You might eat Gilda.'” — Donita K. Paul, DragonQuest

“‘More like the real thing,’ said the lord Digory softly.” — C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.” — C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“‘Jewel,’ he said, ‘what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.'” — C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.” — C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“I object to that remark very strongly!” — C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“But he always liked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. ‘A devilish temper she had,’ he would say. ‘But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.'” — C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

(Would that be considered language?)

“‘Now sir,’ said the bulldog in his business-like way. ‘Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?'” — C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“‘Now it’s like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.’

‘Your eyes are closed, and the moon as a haze around it.'” — Donita K. Paul, DragonSpell

“Well, whatever they say, you don’t feel like ghosts.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“‘Oh, I’m a dangerous criminal, I am,’ said the dwarf cheerfully.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“And if we’re dead –which I don’t deny it might be– well, you got to remember worse things ‘appen at sea and a chap’s got to die sometime. And there ain’t nothing to be afraid of if a chap’s lead a decent life. And if you ask me, I think the best thing we could do to pass the time would be to sing a ‘ymn.” — C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“Prince Caspian lived in a great castle in the center of Narnia with his uncle, Miraz, the King of Narnia, and his aunt, who had red hair and was called Queen Prunaprismia.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“It was very hard work. They had to stoop under branches and climb over branches, and they blundered through great masses of stuff like rhododendrons and tore their clothes and got their feet wet in the stream; and still there was no noise at all except the noises they where making themselves.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“‘This wasn’t a garden,’ said Susan presently. ‘It was a castle…'” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“…He bawled up at the giant, ‘Hi! You up there…what’s your name?’

‘Giant Rumblebuffin, if you please, your honor…” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“Atleast he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarves, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“‘…I’m afraid it’s not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin.’

‘Not at all. Not at all.’ said the giant politely. ‘Never met a nicer hankerchee.'” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“‘Blowed if I ain’t all in a muck sweat,’ said the Giant, puffing like the largest railway engine. ‘Comes of being out of condition. I suppose neither of you young Ladies has such a thing as a pocket-hankerchee about you?'” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

(I suppose that might be called British language? *should go learn more about Britian*)

“Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“When there came a sound that I’d never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won’t forget that. THe whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, ‘If that’s not the Horn, call me a rabbit.'” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“Kids like us don’t often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“Oh Trees, Trees…wake. Don’t you remember it? Don’t you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“…Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then –Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“‘Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,’ said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn’t much use.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“Cobbles and kettledrums! …I hope this madness isn’t going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild insdie, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you’d never know which were which.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“…And the whole forrest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“‘Come in,’ [the professor said] and got up and found chairs for them and said he was quite at their disposal.” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia–in our world they usually don’t talk at all.” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“…If there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees nocking, they’re either braver than most, or else just silly.” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“He had just settled in his mind what sort of palace he would have and how many cars and all about his private cinema and where the principal railways would run and what laws he would make against beavers and dams and putting the finishing touches to some schemes for keeping Peter in his place, when the weather changed.” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day — only the shadows were rather confusing.” — C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“…Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grave as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“‘We will make holiday.’ They rubbed their eyes and looked round them, the trees had all gone but could still be seen moving away toward Aslan’s How in a darkness Bacchus and the Mainads –his fierce madcap girls– and Silenus were still with them. …Everyone was awake, everyone was laughing, flutes were playing, cymbals clashing. Animals, not Talking Animals, were crowding in upon them from every direction.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“He was a very humane killer too, for he would dispatch a beast with one blow of his tail so that it didn’t know (and presumably doesn’t know) it had been killed.” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“‘Am I to understand,’ said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, ‘That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty’s protection? Because, if not–” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“I have seen them both in a egg… In Narnia we call that ‘Going Bad.'” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue –and things like that– but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“‘You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,’ said Aslan, ‘And that is both honor enough to erract the head of the poorest beggar and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest Emperor on earth. Be content.'” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“There once was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb and he almost deserved it.” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“He didn’t call his father and mother ‘Father’ and ‘Mother’ but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing excersises in model schools.” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“And that’s why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn’t come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Ah, you’ve come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain’t it?” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“All times may be soon to Aslan; but in my home all hungry times are one o’clock.” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“‘Golly,’ said Edmund under his breath, ‘He’s a retired star.'” — C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“You’re a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don’t come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!” — C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“Puddleglum’s my name. But it doesn’t matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.” — C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“‘Puddleglum,’ they’ve said, ‘You’re altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You’ve got to learn that life isn’t all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We’re only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.’ That’s what they say. Now a job like this –a journey up north just as winter’s beginning looking for a prince that probably isn’t there, by way of ruined city nobody’s ever seen– will be just the thing. If that doesn’t steady a chap, I don’t know what will.” — C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“Aslan’s instructions always work; there are no exceptions.” — C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“‘Well!’ said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. ‘This is just what I needed. If these chaps don’t teach me to take a serious view of life, I don’t know what will.'” — C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“And there’s one thing about this underground work, we shan’t get any rain.” — C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“You keep a grip of my heels, Pole, and Scrubb would hold on to yours. Then we’ll all be comfortable.” — C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“‘Yes, I know,’ interrupted Puddleglum. ‘And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn’t say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren’t you?'” — C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“But fie on gravity!” — C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“Shalt think otherwise when thou hast a man of thine own, I warrant you,’ said the knight, apparently thinking this very funny.” — C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“You see, Aslan didn’t tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he’s up, I shouldn’t wonder. But that doesn’t let us off following the signs.” — C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.” — C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“But as long as you know you’re nobody special, you’ll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.” — C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“‘Who are you?’

‘One who has waited long for you to speak.'” — C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.” — C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“‘Child,’ said the voice, ‘I’m telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.'” — C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“Do not dare not to dare.” — C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“‘Please,’ she said, ‘Your so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I’d rather be eaten by you then fed by anyone else.” — C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“Father! Can I box him? Please!” — C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“‘The bolt of Tash falls from above!’

‘Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?'” — C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.” — C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“‘By gum,’ said Digory, ‘Don’t I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!'” — C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“This didn’t seem to have anything to do with Old Narnia, which was what Caspian really wanted to hear about, but getting up in the middle of the night is always interesting and he was moderately pleased.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“The whole journey was odd and dream-like — the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.” — C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

Some of them are a bit long, *hides* all my very favorite Narnia quotes are. I tried to delete most of them, but I couldn’t bare to get rid of them all. Don’t forget to watch typos/spelling mistakes when adding quotes. I mean, I’ve made several mistakes, I’m sure, so, becareful about cutting and pasting any of these.

[edit]Goodness, more quotes then I expected. I promise, I did choose carefully, these are only my top favorites and the ones that would work best on the front page and are almost short enough.

Owan – 1 week ago  » Running Total: 5,781

*returns from vacation*

The Bible: The New Testament (KJV) 411 pages

What can I say?

Lord Foulgrin’s Letters by Randy Alcorn 192 pages

I picked this up because of it’s somewhat impressive cover and because my family once sold a book to this author, and, it turns out that this man can not write properly. And, it’s a Christian book featuring a few things that I don’t believe.

Horrible Histories: The Terribly Tutors and The Slimy Stuarts by Terry Deary, Neil Tonge, and Martin Brown 251 pages

Some language and graphic violence. History at its horriblest. Aka, all the nasty bits left in. Quick read and –oh so!– interesting. If you like knowing what people did for diseases and all that nasty stuff.

The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanna DePrau 289 pages

The third book of Ember, not as intertesting as the others, and she brought too much into the story that didn’t really have anything to do with the story, don’t ya know. The journal, Hoyt McCoy, and so on had nothing to do with the story, and yet…they where there. I suspect this is something writers are taught not to do in preschool. *tut-tuts*

Running Total: 6,924

The Stranger by Albert Camus 181 pages

Shockingly disturbing book. Disturbing elements and characters, the whole tone of the book is disturbing. Not to mention dull.

Running Total: 5,781

Radio Theatre. It’s about the only good one out there. Though…I’m one to go straight for the book and not the audio.

*giggles* What fun, Alyosha! I’ve never heard it before either… *Saves*

Alyosha – 1 day ago  » Oh, and Delaney. (Cordelia here)

Ah, yes Cordelia/Delaney, you should come in here more often, we’re talking about you.

My favorite Delaney piece is one she PMed me a long time ago (okay, so maybe June, 2007 isn’t all that long ago), after she’d stayed over with her grandparents. *fishes it out of folders*

Wishing well, grant me this:

Catch my fervent longing

Nod and smile; say you will

Grant my wish come morning.

Aw! That’s so sad, Alyosha! My sister is currently very intent on loosing The King of Attolia right now, it’s the book she’s rereading.