Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard

by Tom Felton

“I’ve always known I was a duck,” she said, “but I’ve spent my whole life being told I was a chicken. Every time I try to say ‘quack’ the world tells me that I have to say ‘cluck.’ I even started believing that I was a chicken and not a duck. Then we started hanging out and I found somebody else who quacked. And that’s when I thought: To hell with them, I really am a duck!”

it’s our choices, not our abilities, that show us what we truly are.

I would not be seeing many of those people so regularly, or even ever again, not out of choice but out of life moving on.

It’s easy to bask in the sun, not so easy to enjoy the rain. But one can’t exist without the other. The weather always changes. Feelings of sadness and happiness deserve equal mental screen time.

The only true currency we have in life is the effect we have on those around us.