“Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience. ”

“I was quite a looker in my time," she said. Was she reading his mind, or only being smart, to know she must be hideous?"Oh, had they invented time as long ago as that?”

“And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.'Did she ever come out?'Not yet.”

“I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.”

“I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness.”

“Tell me to mind my own business, tell me to go fuck myself, to piss, off, go on, say it, but don’t tell me nothing’s wrong.”

“Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home.”