Fire and Hemlock

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

Mr. Lynn gave her one of his considering looks. "People are strange," he said. "Usually they're much stranger than you think. Start from there and you'll never be unpleasantly surprised. Do you fancy doughnuts?

Polly finished her huge narrative during the summer term. The day after she had finished it, she went round with the oddest mixture of feelings, pride at having got it done, sick of the sight of it and glad it was over, and completely lost without it.

If you were able to hear lime juice, it would sound like violins.

You've rotted your mind with reading books.

That is the path of Wickedness, though some call it the Road to Heaven.