“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...”

“This magic does not work with anger.”

“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.”

“No time for monsters.”

“Don't write your child's pages. Turn them with love.”

“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...”

“I guess I need to leave it up to the Great Magician, as Harry would say.”

“Remember your magic.”

“We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.”

“But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, ...”

“You guys know about vampires? You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? Theres this idea that monsters dont have reflections in a mirror. And what Ive always thought isnt that monsters d...”

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”

“The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.”

“When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.”