This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.