If it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast.

There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.

Magic won't save us. The power it would take to conjure on such a scale, the tithe would destroy us. The only hope...is hope. You don't need tokens for it - it's in your heart or nowhere. And in your heart, child, it had been stronger than I have ever seen.

I'm going to be the scariest grandma in the world.

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.