“You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.”

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”

“We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot.""Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.”

“No, you're not. And you're not fooling anybody by trying to pretend you are. Maybe it's because of what you've been through. Maybe it's just the way you were born. I don't know, but you're special, Miracle. You may not think you're perfect, but to some people, you're everything they've wished for, whether they realized it or not.”

“If you don't believe in the things you're doing, the answer isn't fooling yourself into thinking you believe it. If you don't believe in what you're doing, then you just shouldn't be doing it.”

“Don't you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode's thoughts.”