I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.
It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.
I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!
I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.
You used to be much more. . . "muchier. " You've lost your muchness.
Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down.
It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.
I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.