Quotes From "Ptolemys Gate" By Jonathan Stroud

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A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you. Jonathan Stroud
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It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human. Jonathan Stroud
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To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing. Not the table. Though it was very nicely polished. Jonathan Stroud