Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

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

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

... when your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse.

Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect.

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect