Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

Even a witch wants sympathy.

Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

Eavesdropping is such a regular-person activity.

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

But witchy magic doesn’t listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn’t really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.

Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to the next.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs

To justify one's actions is easy. Acting responsibly and being accountable for actions is very difficult.

He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.

If I left I would feel a deserter - like the guy who walks away from the army once there is a war. I am highly committed to this club. I love what I do here and love the spirit of the team.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.

I owe 'Jericho' my whole time in America, really. It was a fantastic group of people to work with.

The natural tendency of the state is inflation.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.