But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters.