That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

Even a witch wants sympathy.

Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

But witchy magic doesn’t listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn’t really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.

Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to the next.

The living has a great hope, we have life to bounce back from any difficulty. The dead had no hope.

I can’t control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media]

Since he'd stepped out of medical school, all he'd ever done was fulfil the same three basic templates, again and again and again. The possibility of infinite variation had led only to convergence.

The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.

Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.

Every experience I have benefits me. I am in the process of positive change.

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.