“The other raised his club and attacked L, who inexpliciably fell over on his back like an overturned frog.”

“Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.”

“Then he half raised himself from the ground, threw his arms into the air, and fell forward in his side. He was dead.”

“Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.”

“There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with.”

“It's just a passing thing,' Vishnu had told me about his girlfriend's beliefs. 'It's like their way of assimilating into the West. It's like a social club. One more generation, it'll be over.”