The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?

I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine.