And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?" ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle

No I am not all right!” Chrestomanci said, after five minutes of this. “I have worldwide blisters. I need a shave. I’m tired out and I haven’t had anything to eat since breakfast yesterday. Would you feel alright in my position?

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie