Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

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.

Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."