You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water." Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

All your tomorrows start here.

Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.