“Rogers wand made a crackling noise as he traced it around Winstons arms, down his waist, and everywhere else.”

“Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.”

“He glared at Mr. Diddleys yellow-toothed smile, and thought how hed like to shove a toothbrush in his mouth and teach him how to use it.”

“He glared at Mr. Diddley’s yellow-toothed smile, and thought how he’d like to shove a toothbrush in his mouth and teach him how to use it.”

“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 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.”