If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything.
Calcifer," Sophie said, "I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you?" "It would if anyone else broke it," Calcifer said hoarsely. "That's why I asked you to do it.
You have no right to make jigsaws of people.
All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.
Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.
But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?
But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.
Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.
It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.
No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves. And since a tyrant never lacks instruments for his tyranny, Tiberius always found judges ready to condemn as many people as he might suspect.
One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.