(Source: dwj2012)
“I fancy you forgot to pedal,” Chrestomanci said.
“But how does he pedal and balance?” - Julia wanted to know.
“One of life’s mysteries,” Chestomanci said “But I have frequently seen it done.”
The Pinhoe Egg, Diana Wynne Jones. :)
(Source: l-e-v-i-r-i-e-t)
Christopher Chant... How do I begin to explain Christopher Chant?
- Conrad: Christopher Chant is flawless.
- Janet: I hear his dressing gowns are insured for $10,000. Each.
- Flavian: I hear he did experiments for the Wraith... in the Related Worlds.
- Gabriel: His favorite cat is a bloodthirsty beast.
- Tacroy: One time he met the Living Asheth in Series Ten...
- Rosalie: And she told him he was funny.
- Oneir: One time I hit him with a cricket bat and killed him.
- It was awesome.
"Grundo sighed enviously. “When I grow up,” he pronounced, “I shall take care to have three really peculiar families at least. I want crowds of mad relatives."
— The Merlin Conspiracy (via csiankh-morpork)
(Source: theswordintheparsnip)
"I’ve just been seeing Chrestomanci, and it is hard to be punished for other people’s sins,” Janet went on, “even though I’ve been rewarded with the sight of a sky-blue dressing gown with golden lions on it."
— The Magnificent Wardrobe Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Charmed Life, Diana Wynne Jones (via bossthoven)
(Source: dalemark)
The Lives of Christopher Chant
It was years before Christopher told anyone about his dreams.
Conrad’s Fate
When I was small, I always thought Stallery Mansion was some kind of fairy-tale castle.
Charmed Life
Cat Chant admired his elder sister Gwendolen.
The Magicians of Caprona
Spells are the hardest things in the world to get right.
The Pinhoe Egg
At the beginning of the Summer holidays, while Chrestomanci and his family were still in the south of France, Marianne Pinhoe and her brother, Joe, walked reluctantly up the steep main street of Ulverscote.
Witch Week
The note said: Someone in this class is a witch.
"Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World."
— Diana Wynne Jones, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland (via yankintheuk)
I’m going through a bit of a Diana Wynne Jones rediscovery phase. After re-reading Merlin Conspiracy and The Lives of Christopher Chant I’m not totally unconvinced that the above isn’t true.
(via fuckyeahchrestomanci)
Day 13: A book whose main character you want to marry
Christopher Chant
(from the Chrestomanci Series, by Diana Wynne Jones)
What does it say about me that I didn’t even have to think about this one?After that (…), we both tore Christopher’s character to shreds. It was wonderful fun. Millie, from having known Christopher for years, found two faults in him where I only knew one. His clothes, she told me, he fussed about his clothes being perfect ALL the time. He’d been like that for three years now. He drove everyone in Chrestomanci Castle mad by insisting on silk shirts and exactly the right kind of pajamas. “And he could get them right anyway by magic,” Millie told me, “if he wasn’t too lazy to learn how. He IS lazy, you know. He hates having to learn facts. He knows he can get by just PRETENDING to know - bluffing, you know. But the thing that REALLY annoys me is the way he never bothers to learn a person’s NAME. If a person isn’t important to him, he ALWAYS forgets their name.”
When Millie said this, I realized that Christopher had never once forgotten MY name - even if it was an alias.
(via fuckyeahchrestomanci)
I love this cover art set <3
I’m in the process of re-reading all the Chrestomanci books. It’s one of those series that should seem immature and bad as I get older, but instead they get better and better on every reread.
