But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes." "Those are spiders.

...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [...] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.

Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.

Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.