“The worst thing never quite comes.”
“Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.”
“Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.”
“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”
“Perhaps when it comes to it, no one is just the worst thing they ever did.”
“The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too.[The human element]”