No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself