6 Quotes & Sayings By Christianna Brand

Christianna Brand is the author of the popular "Hex" series of novels. She writes steamy, sexy paranormal romances for the Harlequin Superromance line. She lives with her husband in rural Texas, where she is at work on her next novel.

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She was very ugly - the ugliest person you ever saw in your life! Her hair was scraped into a bun, sticking straight out at the back of her head like a teapot handle; and her face was round and wrinkly, and she had eyes like two little black boot-buttons. And her nose! - she had a nose like two potatoes. She wore a rusty black dress right up to the top of her neck and right down to her button boots, and a rusty black jacket and a rusty black bonnet, all trimmed with trembly black jet, with her teapot-handled of a bun sticky out at the back. And she carried a small brown case and a large black stick, and she had a very fierce expression indeed on her wrinkly, round, brown face. But what you noticed most of all was that she had one huge front Tooth, sticking right out like a tombstone over her lower lip. You never, in the whole of your life, ever saw such a Tooth! . Christianna Brand
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Good evening, children, ' Said Nurse Matilda, and she gave a loud thump on the floor with her big black stick. 'I am Nurse Matilda. Christianna Brand
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Once upon a time there was a huge family of children; and they were terribly, terribly naughty. Christianna Brand
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The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown's family. 'The person you want, ' they said, 'is Nurse Matilda. Christianna Brand
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And as they spoke - lo and behold! - there was a knock at the door, and there stood a small, stout figure dressed in rusty black; and she said, 'Good evening, Mr and Mrs Brown, I am Nurse Matilda. Christianna Brand