Zitate von Jonathan Stroud

„Manche behaupten ja, der Heldentot sei etwas Bewundernswertes. Diese Ansicht hat mich nie recht überzeugt. Hauptsächlich darum nicht, weil man beim Heldentod, ganz gleich wie gelassen, stilvoll, ruhig, unerschütterlich, männlich oder trotzig man ihn angeht, irgendwann tot ist, und das ist für meinen Geschmack eine Spur zu entgültig.“

—  Jonathan Stroud

„Ich für meinen Teil denke während einer Verfolgungsjagd gern nach. Keiner stört einen, man ist allein und all die Problemchen werden bedeutungslos. Das wichtigste Thema heißt natürlich: "Wie bleibe ich am Leben?", aber auch andere Dinge sieht man in neuem Licht, was zu ganz neuen und manchmal überraschenden Erkenntnissen führt.“

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch Der Ring des Salomo

„Wenn man schon eines grässlichen Todes sterben muss, sollte man wenigstens einen stilvollen Abgang hinlegen.“

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch Der Ring des Salomo

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

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch Das Amulett von 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.“

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch Der Ring des Salomo

„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.“

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch The Golem's Eye

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

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch Das Amulett von Samarkand

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

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch The Golem's Eye

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

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch Das Amulett von Samarkand

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

—  Jonathan Stroud

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

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch Der Ring des Salomo

„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.“

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch Das Amulett von Samarkand

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

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch Das Amulett von Samarkand

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

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch Ptolemy's Gate

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

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch Das Amulett von 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).“

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch 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.“

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch 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.“

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch 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.“

—  Jonathan Stroud, buch The Golem's Eye