Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.