And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

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.

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.

Celebrity is as celebrity does.