Be careful what you learn from me," he said. "What is written with a sword cannot be erased. - Lev Grossman

It was strange to be naked in front of Pouncy after all the time they’d spent together clothed. It was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary, you didn’t think you could stand it, but then you plunged in and pretty soon you got used to it. There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

“A Man, a Plan, a Bacchanal: Anomie,” said Peters, grandly.