Beauty Isn't Made Of Sugar.

Annoyed?” Said Sophie. “why Should I Be Annoyed? Someone Only Filled The Castle With Rotten Aspic, And Deafened Everyone In Porthaven, And Scared Calcifer To A Cinder, And Broke A Few Hundred Hearts. Why Should That Annoy Me?

Imagination Doesn’t Just Mean Making Things Up. It Means Thinking Things Through, Solving Them, Or Hoping To Do So, And Being Just Distant Enough To Be Able To Laugh At Things That Are Normally Painful. Head Teachers Would Call This Escapism, But They Would Be Entirely Wrong. I Would Call Fantasy The Most Serious, And The Most Useful, Branch Of Writing There Is. And This Is Why I Don’t, And Never Would, Write Real Books.

He Scarcely Saw His Parents. When Christopher Was Small, He Was Terrified That He Would Meet Papa Out Walking In The Park One Day And Not Recognize Him.

Settle For What You Can Get, But First Ask For The World.

Doras Ii Was A Somewhat Absentminded King, It Is Said, When Death Came To Summon Him, Doras Granted Death The Usual Formal Audience And Then Dismissed Him From His Presence. Death Was Too Embarrassed To Return Until Many Years Later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances