I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.

I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.