“But this didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”

“He couldn't remember having been seventeen; it was something that must have happened to him while he was busy. But it made him feel like he imagined it felt like when you were seventeen, which was like having a permanent red-hot vest on under your skin.”

“Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.”

“It was quite impossible to describe.Here is what it looked like.It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon. ”

“And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!”

“That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.”

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”