Ysabeau S. Wilce

Ysabeau S. Wilce is an American author of young adult fantasy novels.

Quotes

Flora Segunda (2007)

All page numbers are from the hardcover first edition published by Harcourt, Inc., ISBN 0-15-205433-2, first printing

• Crackpot Hall has eleven thousand rooms, but only one potty.
  • Crackpot Hall: The Fyrdraaca Family at Home (p. 1)

• If your head explodes, I am not cleaning it up.
  • Chapter 11 (p. 102)

• Life is a prison if you cannot leave it as you like.
  • Chapter 21 (p. 207)

• Panic poisons; levelheaded lives.
  • Chapter 25 (p. 244)

• You look all right to me, although may be a bit wiggly about the edges. But perhaps I just need coffee.
  • Chapter 29 (p. 281)

• I shook my head. I had been too busy panicking to do anything that sensible.
  • Chapter 29 (p. 281)

• Nini Mo says that most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore. If exhaustion and hunger were the hallmarks of courage, then I was the bravest person that ever lived.
  • Chapter 35 (p. 330)

• It’s amazing what a little maquillage can do for you, particularly if you don’t lay it on with a trowel.
  • Chapter 40 (p. 366)