I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?

But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.

Love wins. It does win. We know it wins.