Heir Apparent Quotes
"How pathetic is that? Even before the bus had started in on me, my mood wasn’t exactly the best it’s ever been."
"Whatever. Birthday = don’t-mess-with-me mood."
"A little bit of artificial intelligence can be an annoying thing."
"What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamphlet?"
"I sighed and gave a Queen Victoria wave, and muttered under my breath, 'Your mother was a toaster oven.'"
"I was arguing with a bus. How pathetic is that?"
"I have an uncle who’ll tell you the same thing about his rottweiler."
"This will get you half an hour of total immersion game time or forty-five tokens for the arcade games up front."
"Because the computer directly stimulates your brain, you will feel as though you’re actually experiencing the adventure."
"Just my luck to get an explanation from someone who didn’t know when to give up a bad metaphor."
"Are you all right?" I repeated, tipping his face up by the chin."
"I’ll bet. It was hard not to picture my real father as the king."
"Ouch. Not a very good first impression on my family."
"I closed my eyes and braced myself for the blow from the sword."
"The statue just stood there, like a good statue should."
"You’re saying that when I give the ring to someone, that person has to accept it, and then he or she has to do whatever I command."
"It’s like a fat woman trying to stand on one foot. No, not a good idea at all."
"You don’t have to be abandoned to be abandoned."
"The dead didn’t rest themselves here by themselves. It must be safe for living people to pass through."
"He must be in a good mood. Lucky you; he’s accepted your poem."
"Rest in peace. Let none but the dead pass through here."
"A maze. And here I’d been hoping the topiary maze was the only one I’d have to deal with."
"The important thing about the third room was that there were two doorways leading out of it."
"It must be some strange acoustical property of the interconnecting caves."
"Screaming continually is actually very tiring."
"No time. Plus, of course, that would make the peasants even surlier."
"If they’ve decided that it will be fun to haunt you, it will be difficult to distract them."
"Even magic can’t control thinking," he said wistfully.
"The guards didn’t disagree with me, but then, they probably wouldn’t have, no matter what."
"If you’re going to be running around the countryside digging up treasure, you might do well to borrow one of the page’s uniforms."
"Who would have guessed that such a thing could become excessive?"
"I didn’t have high hopes for not accumulating ghosts."
"Obsequious? Doesn’t that mean the kind of person who says, 'Yes, sir. No, sir. Please let me grovel at your feet, sir'?"
"I think I will check if my blue dress with the pieces of rose quartz sewn around the neckline and the shedded-yak-hair cuffs is clean enough to wear."
"It wasn’t that their noise was continuous. No, you can get used to just about any sound that never stops."
"I wondered if anybody ever paid his money, got killed in the opening moves of the game, and spent the whole campaign in the cool gray gauziness that the computer calls death."
"The difference between playing a Rasmussem game and a regular old virtual reality game is like the difference between watching an IMAX movie and one of those old black and white silent films."
"Emily hooked herself into the game she was developing, and . . . she did something. She bypassed safety protocols."
"The first thing I noticed was the stink. I nearly gagged, and rolled over from my side onto my back."
"I hate being places where I don’t know anybody."
"I mean, I still remembered who I was and all that. But everything just sort of suddenly kind of shifted."
"Emily could come out, too. She’s simply choosing not to."
"We’re hoping Grace can get her to see reason."
"Then they want my other daughter to just step right in after her."