Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?

Of course there’s another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I’m just not going to take it.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.

I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.

It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see.

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.