“Sixteen-year-old boys were lousy lovers.”

“Sometimes solutions seemed to come out of the air.”

“The male penis. What other penis was there?”

“Maybe when you die, that's when you learn how to use your tail and your fins," Feldon said. "You can go up to the top and have lunch.”

“Maybe better not to say it. To just let the world fall to bits around them in the most delicious ways.”

“They were giving their childhood to this woman! They were starting at seven, and by the time they were sixteen they were still reading bloody Harry Potter—sixteen-year-olds, wearing wizard outfits, who should have been shagging behind the bike shed and smoking marijuana and reading Camus.”

“…because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.”