“Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.”

“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”

“You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do…”

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”

“The world’s gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it.
The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it.”

“How quickly expectations can change one’s behavior, she thought.”

“In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.”

“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”

“A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.”

“Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.”