I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

Magic never dies. It merely fades away.