But I discovered that people like me – they do, you know, if you like them – and then it was all right.
Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.
Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.
But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities – besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them.
And it’s a pity too that I’ve no right to open your letters. I hope you don’t get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
A fickle heart is the only constant in this world.
Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.
A heart’s a heavy burden.
I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it’s just a question of finding this.
Sorry, I’ve had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I’ve got something I want to protect. It’s you.
Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.
It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.
I mean one of the things about being alone is that you’ve no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let’s face it, we don’t often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.
It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.
Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.
Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.
Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.
If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!
You have no right to make jigsaws of people.