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Jonathan Stroud: Frasi in inglese

“The old pain had started up again, throbbing in my chest, stomach, bones. It wasn't healthy to be encased in a body for so long. How humans can stand it without going completely mad, I'll never know.†
† Then again… maybe that explains a lot.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Amulet of Samarkand

The Amulet of Samarkand (2003)

“One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Amulet of Samarkand

Origine: The Amulet of Samarkand

“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.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Ring of Solomon

Origine: The Ring of Solomon

“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.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Golem's Eye

Origine: The Golem's Eye

“And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Amulet of Samarkand

Origine: The Amulet of Samarkand

“Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Golem's Eye

Origine: The Golem's Eye

“Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Amulet of Samarkand

Origine: The Amulet of Samarkand

“Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price.”

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Jonathan Stroud

Origine: The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set

“Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Ring of Solomon

Origine: The Ring of Solomon

“I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience, I had five thousand and ten. That was the kind of odds that you could do something with.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Amulet of Samarkand

Origine: The Amulet of Samarkand

“Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Amulet of Samarkand

Origine: The Amulet of Samarkand

“The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro Ptolemy's Gate

Origine: Ptolemy's Gate

“He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Amulet of Samarkand

Origine: The Amulet of Samarkand

“He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).”

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Jonathan Stroud libro Ptolemy's Gate

Origine: Ptolemy's Gate

“Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Screaming Staircase

Origine: The Screaming Staircase

“Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Golem's Eye

Origine: The Golem's Eye

“I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered."
"What! How long has it been?"
"Five minutes. I got bored.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Golem's Eye

Origine: The Golem's Eye

“Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro Ptolemy's Gate

Origine: Ptolemy's Gate

“But Iget afraid. It's just that fear makes me sort of… angry and resentful, and I bite back at it. It's hard to describe."

It isn't hard to describe, you idiot," Aud said. "It's called courage.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro Heroes of the Valley

Origine: Heroes of the Valley

“If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Amulet of Samarkand

Origine: The Amulet of Samarkand

“Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.”

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“Ah, you coward! Look at you, running."

"Actually, it's called improvising.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro Heroes of the Valley

Origine: Heroes of the Valley

“Okay…' I hurried on. 'But why me?'
'You're a girl,' Lockwood called. 'Aren't you supposed to be more sensitive?'
'To emotions, yes. To nuances of human behavior. Not necessarily to secret passages in a wall.'
'Oh, it's much the same thing.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Screaming Staircase

Origine: The Screaming Staircase

“Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look, if you can bear it. See? Flawed's putting it mildly, isn't it?)”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Ring of Solomon

Origine: The Ring of Solomon

“Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Amulet of Samarkand

Origine: The Amulet of Samarkand

“Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Ring of Solomon

Origine: The Ring of Solomon

“Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout."
"Whithout what?”

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Jonathan Stroud libro Ptolemy's Gate

Origine: Ptolemy's Gate

“The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro Ptolemy's Gate

Origine: Ptolemy's Gate

“That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.”

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Jonathan Stroud

“Plan F, we follow Plan F, right now.
- Is that the one where we run away?
- Not at all. It's the one where we beat a dignified emergency retreat.”

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Jonathan Stroud libro The Whispering Skull

Origine: The Whispering Skull

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