“I furrowed my brows at him. What was so amazing about a stick? I could pick one up outside on the way to the car. Let me guess, youre Harry Potter and this is the school of Hogwarts. If I say Lumos...”

“This was like being in one of those National Geographic magazines. We were among the natives now.”

“So, Mr. Mandrake, what is it you plan to do with me this evening? I asked haughtily. I presume, he said, playing along, that I will start with feeding you proper and then proceed with morepestifero...”

“Will that be all?” I asked the pimply faced teen who ogled my exposed legs as if in heat. My pen tapped impatiently on the notepad while I waited for him to look up. Slowly his dull grey eyes roved...”

“So, Mr. Mandrake, what is it you plan to do with me this evening?” I asked haughtily. “I presume,” he said, playing along, “that I will start with feeding you proper and then proceed with more…pest...”

“When you feel annoyed, when you feel pain, that's when you have the opportunity to meet and confront yourself. It is when we are most emotionally volatile that we expose our true selves. Unresolved...”

“George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in bl...”

“Each day that comes is not a privilege to think about wrong people and things in a negative way and disturb not just your mind, but your heart as well! Each day is however, a great privilege to be ...”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then wemust be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutchesof those who seek to exploit their weaknesses”

“When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.”

“A human teenager. One of Gods most misbegotten creatures big like grown-ups and yet dumb like children.”