“Don’t believe this,” murmured Miss Havisham. “It’s all poppycock. Her majesty is a verb short of a sentence.” — Jasper Fforde

“He said you were very dangerous.”

“No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth.”

Mr. McGregor’s a nasty piece of work, isn’t he? Quite the Darth Vader of children’s literature.

It wasn’t going to be hard—it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I’d done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.