It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere...

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

...what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?""What of it?""Well, how can that be real?""Prove that it is not, " said Xenophilius.Hermione looked out

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

A car is a 2, 000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

I worked at Ikea as a customer service rep for two years and loved it.

Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It is time to start thinking.

My life is great because I made it that way. Anything other than happiness doesn't get a pass key.

I can honestly say that if I was told at this moment that I was dying, not my first, not my second, but certainly my third thought would be that I should never see Italy again.

He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.