You've got to work. It's about structure. It's about discipline. It's all these deadly things that your school teacher told you you needed... You need it.

Jo speaking to Charlie Rose re: writing

Fats and Andrew were perhaps equally aware that the admiration in their relationship flowed mostly from Andrew to Fats; but Fats alone suspected that he needed Andrew more than Andrew needed him.

Would the realization of Sukhvinder’s desperation lead, at last, to some crack in her mother’s implacable disapproval, her disappointment, her endless stone-faced criticism?

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?

Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.