Not an ugly color, Nanny thought. Just not a human color.

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

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

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

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

You confuse not speaking with not listening.