“Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.”
“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?”
“I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.”
“Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.”
“But love is this really powerful thing that everyone's got if they'd just learn how to accept it. I mean, come on. If it's something we all have to give, and if it's something we all want, doesn't that mean there's exactly enough to go around?”
“And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.”