There is no fool like an educated fool.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.