Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

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

For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.

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.

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

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.