the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.

He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent." "I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "but you seem to be the only one to believe me.

Daniel immediately knelt at her side, pulling her close. “It’s all right,” he murmured. “Everything is going to be all right.” Anne shook her head. “No, it’s not.” She looked up, her eyes shining with love. “It’s going to be so much better.

She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.

There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?