Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

I hope your bacon burns.

Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).

After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.