It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight. - Shirley Jackson

I have a beard,' Dr. Montague said, pleased, and looked around at them with a happy beam. 'My wife,' he told them, 'likes a man to wear a beard. Many women, on the other hand, find a beard distasteful. A clean-shaven man - you'll excuse me, my boy - never looks fully dressed, my wife tells me.' He held out his glass to Luke.

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

I decided that I would choose three powerful words, words of strong protection, and so long as these great words were never spoken aloud no change would come.