The tail of Emily Windsnap"everyone has a secret . mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.

You can't make people stop loving each other just because a law says it's wrong.

All that time I thought she was my future, I was wrong. She wasn't my future at all. She was the door to my future. But I'm through that door now, and ready to close it behind me.

It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?The world's a lot bigger than I am.

Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.

On the way out, I hug Mum, holding her close. 'Thank you, ' I whisper. 'For dinner - and for everything.'Mum smiles and strokes my cheek. 'There's nothing to thank me for.

The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.

For a second, I see into the future: she's old and grey, she has senile dementia and can't remember my name. The thought pretty much breaks my heart in two.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whose only achievement was not, yet, to be dead.

The Force is within you. Force yourself.

Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again.

Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.

I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.

Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.