...I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.

The soul, Daffy says, is not necessarily where the heart is.

One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic.

Magic doesn’t work when you’re sad.

Give Nature a vacuum and she will try to fill it. Give her localized pressure and she will try to disperse it. She is forever seeking a balance she can never achieve, never happy with what she's got.

Even a God finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.

Eva: I don't want any tea.
Lil: Don’t make me have it on my own.

One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

Sometime it's really hardest things to keep yourself alone.

Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: "They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Appearances are deceiving.

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Death is the great leveller.

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.