I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

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

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

"Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed.