God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

I don't want to hold you hand!

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.