Quotes by : Jonathan Stroud

The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again.....

Lockwood didn’t speak until everything was quiet again. “I know you’re worrying about me, Luce,”....

In my youth, I was always one for the dramatic entrance. Now, in keeping with my character, I gravitate....

Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers.....

This is what the Problem means,” he went on. “This is the effect it has. Lives lost, loved ones taken....

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen....

The mole dug its way deep, deep down, under the foundations of the wall. No magical alarm sounded, though....

There was a profound silence, abruptly broken by an enormously loud rumble from George's stomach. Plaster....

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

I—though forced through lack of space to assume the form of a stoic guinea pig crouched between the....