Quotes from Patricia C. Wrede

NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE

Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

If you're going to be rude, do it for a reason and get something from it.

He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.

I'm sorry. I'm used to people objecting to things because they think I can't do them or shouldn't do them. It didn't occur to me that you might have a real reason.

It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.