“I have to go. I have to be brave.”

“It is good to bounce things off a trusted friend.”

“It is brave to believe that you are a unique, precious young lady no matter what your feelings might be saying.”

“I am not afraid of the dark. And you shouldn't be either.”

“The best part of being unique is not having to be perfect.”

“Summer had a way of being full of fun and things to do and plenty of times of doing nothing and feeling bored.”

“A blessing changes the atmosphere. If you say something kind like, How about being my partner at the annual Spring Fling Dance Contest?, its going to affect the situation. If you say something mean...”

“Remember your magic.”

“We all know what we have to do what the inkling provokes us. We have to do the right thing. We have to make that extra push out of bed, or off the sofa. We must just do it.”

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”

“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”