This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.

Live free or die.

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.

For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Thank you for that, boy genius! Where did you graduate from? Hogwarts School for the Mentally Unbalanced?

I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them

Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards

Resting in this moment, we have no age.

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.