“Doing is doing. Does it mean that it doesn't matter if it's magic or not, anything you do has power and consequences and affects other people?”

“Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.”

“You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.”

“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is.”

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”

“They hang people for murder, and while I didn't exactly like Mummy, she was my mother after all. Though do they hang Viscountesses?”

“I love the train. Sitting here I feel connected to the last time I sat here, and the train to London too. It is in-between, suspended; and in rapid motion towards and away from, it is also poised between. There's a magic in that, not a magic you can work, a magic that's just there, giving a little colour and exhilaration to everything.”