“I was in America, someone wanted a photo with me, I put my arm around her and she told me not to touch her.”

“When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family.”

“Answering to: "Is Emma W. really as bossy as Hermione?"- I'd tell you but she'd hurt me!”

“Being famous is wicked, but being normal is better.”

“You must tell me about it when you do,' she said. 'When you make love for the first time, I mean. I want to know what you think.'He glanced away from her, out of the window. An ice-cream parlour, a man with a dog, a tree. How was he going to get out of shopping next week?'It's so wonderful, it's like,' and she left her mouth open while she thought, and then it came to her, and she smiled, 'it's like colours everywhere.”

“She was someone who heard each grain in the hour-glass, she felt the passing seconds like sandpaper against her softest skin. Time actually seemed to hurt her, and people helped her get through it. [..] Sometimes it seemed to Nathan that her life was just that, a feat of held breath, just another ten seconds, just another five, and then death would flood her lungs like water, a string of glass bubbles to the surface and then nothing. She was scared in a way that he could understand. The kind of fear that sends you running across a six-lane highway or jumping into rapids. She was someone who ran towards her fear, screaming. Who tried to frighten it. Who, in another period of history, would have been worshipped as a saint or burned as a witch.”

“She would but be repaid by my taking her to wife, and that I could not grant her, for love cometh of the heart and mot by constraint.”