“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.”

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.”

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”

“There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except...”

“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.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”