“I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?""Elvish.”
“A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?”
“True learning involves learning other ways of doing what you can do already.”
“If there is anything I’ve learned being the mother of many children, it’s that you’d better laugh at yourself, because everyone else already is.”
“There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.”
“I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.”