Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side.

If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time!" - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)