it's leviOsa, not leviosA

Anxiety is the cause and the effect

Your head is a living forest full of song birds

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live

Assonance means getting the rhyme wrong

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was

It is the plight of every child to have depth their parents can scarcely imagine

If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Great, we’re all bloody inspired

Most affections conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beginning

I think you get cards, and you play them, but then you get more cards. I don't think it's all predestined from the beginning. All along the way, you could have made a different choice and this all could have ended up differently. Failure isn't absolute. Just because you couldn't save everyone doesn't mean you didn't save anyone

If you stubbornly deny the ugly sides of what you do, you will never learn from your mistakes

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education

Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow