“Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.”

“Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.”

“In so many ways, for so many people, freedom was still an illusion. Barrie thought of the statistics she had read about how many women and children were still enslaved all over the world. Now not t...”

“You didnt find strength when you couldnt live without it. You found it when you had someone or something you loved so much that it forced you to stretch the edges of yourself further than you thoug...”

“The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,”

“You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.”

“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we dont fool.”

“So you actually need spectacles, Leo finally said.Of course I do, Marks said crossly. Why would I wear spectacles if I didnt need them?I thought they might be part of your disguise.My disguise?Yes,...”

“Undoubtedly, failure is growth in pains disguise.”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”

“But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.”

“She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.”