“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”

“If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.”

“It's like there are seven candles lit in my stomach. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven candles burning and smoking - lit - seven flames of doubt, fear, sorrow, pain, waste, hopelessness, despair. They turn my insides black with soot and ash. There is something at the back of my eyes - a pressure building, building, building - hot like the flames of seven candles, which no amount of breath can extinguish.”

“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”

“At seven, I didn't insist on my version of the world.”

“There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.”