But we're alive, and together, and we're going to be all right.

The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.

Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.

Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.

Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes and pointed hats whirling and clapping and chanting the name of some old-world prophet, 'Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!'