Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

For Beatrice - you will always be in my mind, in my heart and in your grave.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.