Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

You can't die with an unfinished book.

Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!

Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a sudden crash of thunder,' said Otto. 'And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say "Yonder is . . . zer castle" a volf would be bound to howl mournfully.' He sighed. 'In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.

I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.