Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
Would you like a cough drop Dolores?
She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.
Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.
Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.