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

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

I don't want somebody sucking up to me because they think I am going to help their career. I want them sucking up to me because they genuinely love me.

We're all homos. Homo sapiens.

Distance makes everything beautiful.

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.