But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand on them they were so solid. And those feelings which overwhelmed you in the small hours turned to smoke.

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.