Favourite Quotes and Books
Mold and the Poison Plot
from Dodger by Terry Pratchett
from Dodger by Terry Pratchett
A brilliantly written book and such great fun too!
from Dodger by Terry Pratchett
from Dodger by Terry Pratchett
from Dodger by Terry Pratchett
The rain poured down on London so hard that it seemed that it was dancing spray, every raindrop contending with its fellows for supremacy in the air and waiting to splash down. It was a deluge. The drains and sewers were overflowing, throwing up—regurgitating, as it were—the debris of muck, slime, and filth, the dead dogs, the dead rats, cats, and worse; bringing back up to the world of men all those things that they thought they had left behind them; jostling and gurgling and hurrying toward the overflowing and always hospitable River Thames; bursting its banks, bubbling and churning like some nameless soup boiling in a dreadful cauldron; the river itself gasping like a dying fish.
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from The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell
from The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell
from The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell
Once there was Magic. It was a long, long time ago, in a British Isles so old it did not know it was the British Isles yet, and the Magic lived in the dark forests. Perhaps you feel that you know what a dark forest looks like. Well, I can tell you right now that you don’t. These were forests darker than you would believe possible, darker than inkspots, darker than midnight, darker than space itself, and as twisted and as tangled as a Witch’s heart.
To Kill a Mockingbird
from The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell
from The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell
This one's for a more grown up readership, but told wonderfully in the voice of a seven year -old girl.