He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.

Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.

Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.