Django Wexler Quotes

What do you see here?"
"Books?"
"Indeed, books. They are the ocean in which magic swims.

You're a cat," she said automatically.
"Your powers of perception are astounding," the cat drawled. "Although I feel obliged to point out, in the interests of ontological exactitude, that I am in fact only half cat. Personally, though, I have always considered it the better half.

In desperation, she slid her fingers in the cracks between blocks, looking for some kind of catch or hidden mechanism. Which was ridiculous, she thought, because how complicated could a secret door be if a cat figured it out?

Some things are more important than following the rules.
Aren’t they?

Patience, my friend.
"I'm not your friend. And I'm not patient."

But—though she was not an expert on cats—she was fairly certain that they did not, as a rule, snicker.

He was, of course, cheating her, that was what lawyers were for.

After the cousins came the accountants, who were more open in their appraisals and didn’t bother with Alice at all, and after the accountants, like a Biblical plague building up to a big finish, came the lawyers.

At that age, Alice had grasped the idea that some things in books were real, and others were not.