He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

She says that what you did was a cry for help." "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously