The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.

We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time." "I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you." "Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.