I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

so the poem hurt you.it was supposed to.

The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.

Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.

All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

Imagination comes of not having things.

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*