It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

Where have they gone?" "Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might, ” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.

It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.

Ha!" cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?

[A] smile is the most becomingornament that any lady can wear.

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

It was in the words he didn't say... that I found all the answers to my questions.

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

Damn the wars but bless the soldier.

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

After a while, the fear became a habit, too.

They say that true love hurts, well this could almost kill me young love murder, that is what this must be I would give it all to not be sleeping alone

Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.