“This isn’t me saying yes, Holder. This is me saying please.”
“Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.”
“It is real, isn’t it? It’s not a joke? Petunia says you’re lying to me. Petunia says there isn’t a Hogwarts. It is real, isn’t it?”“It’s real for us,” said Snape. “Not for her.”
“Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience. Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes.”
“Yes," he whispered, reaching out to hold my shoulders. "Just say yes. Say you'll be with me.”
“Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.”