It was no use to tell a person to forget. No matter how hard you tried to put it out of your mind, the hurt would still be there, festering under the forgetfulness, sending poison through your veins.

The high road is littered with pot shots.

All women may not be beautiful but every woman can look beautiful.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.

War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.