In fact the mask theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, and Rob...

I grinned at Daemon and held up a bulb that was so green it almost matched his eyes. I decided it was going to be bulb.

I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.

I have never been able to understand how men can feel affection for individuals who are intent on massacring them in a variety of unpleasant ways, but it is an undeniable fact that they can and do. Wi...

I realized then what had happened.She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into great, gaunt, long-legged hounds.Wonderful! Lea said, pirouetting upon one toe, laughing. Come, children! And she...

I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pau...

I can see one of them clearly now, walkingalong with a newspaper tucked under his arm.he has cut himself shaving and a bit of tissuewith a circle of blood is stuck to his cheek,

I couldn't tell you what was happening on the TV screen. My eyes saw the pictures, but could not register what was happening, especially since my eyes kept falling on Luke. I knew that he knew that I...

I was young myself once, and believe me, in love the truth is of no importance.

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland.

George she practically squealed, and once again he shushed her.You never learn, do you? he murmured against her skin. You're the one who's making me scream.That wasn't a scream, he said with a cocktai...

Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth...

Have we not reached a stage in history where no small nation is safe any longer, where they all must live on sufferance from the dictators? Gone are those pleasant nineteenth-century days when a count...

He had stayed. And fought for me. Week after week, he’d fought for me, even when I had no reaction , even when I had barely been able to speak or bring myself to care if I lived or died or ate or star...

He shook his head pityingly. This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You...