What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling.

There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.