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Some other Wardens thought my coffee-making spells to be a frivolous waste of time in the face of all the darkness in the world, but what good is magic if it cannot be used to make a delicious cup of a fine beverage?
It came to me as a great shock and professional failure when one day I realized that I had made insufficient allowance in my work life for Bigfoot.
“no one loves broccoli. No one even likes broccoli. All the grown-ups just agree to lie about it so that we can make kids eat it, in vengeance for what our parents did to us.”
“Whenever you’ve got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn’t always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.”
both your terrible choices and your more inspired ones engender consequences that will eventually come home to roost.
“if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it?”
Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots.
Harry told me once that you can always tell when you’re about to rationalize your way to a bad decision. It’s when you start using phrases such as It would be wrong, but . . . His advice was to leave the conjunction out of the sentence: It would be wrong. Period.
“Butters,” he said. “Look. I know it’s hard. But there’s one way you deal with fear.” “How?” I asked him. “You stand up and you kick it in the fucking teeth,” he said, and there was a quiet, certain power in his voice that had nothing to do with magic.
My instincts frequently roll their eyes at the decisions my brain makes.
You humans have the potential to be the most wonderful beings there are—if you can get past all these enormous stupid spots you seem to have in your hearts. It’s not your fault. You just don’t know how to work your hearts right yet. That’s why there are dogs.
That might be the saddest part of human heart-stupidity: how much happiness you simply leave aside so that you have enough time to worry.
