I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.
Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.
You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.