‎''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible.

I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.

Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.

I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!

He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.

There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.

Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward.