We had little or no emotion. We lacked the capacity to feel fear, to experience love, to enjoy the sensations of happiness and delight.The finest warriors are not only those who do not fear, but those who are without anger.

The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences

But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

I'm not a bad guy... I'm just good guy that runs over women with his car.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.