It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

There is very seldom any true secret.

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

A heart's a heavy burden.

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.