For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.