“Overhead announcement at psychiatric hospital: Lithium is no longer available on credit. ”
“Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.”
“You knew then that this was not any kind of hospital that cured, but a hospital that held, that kept their patients away from the rest of the world, a kind of ark that floated along full of life, but not participating in life.... These people no longer made progress.”
“Straight answers were beyond the powers of Rashid Khalifa, who would never take a short cut if there was a longer, twistier road available.”
“We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.'You will, will you?'Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.”
“Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there is absolutely nothing else to do.”