Demetrius-Bennett

“Here she was on the other side of the grating—here she was at last, on the outside—looking in!”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

“And what if it were only a story?” said Mrs. May quickly, “so long as it was a good story? Keep your sense of wonder, child, and don’t be so literal. Anything we haven’t experienced for ourselves sounds like a story. All we can ever do is sift the evidence.”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

“My word, he's ugly!' Howl said. 'Chip off the old block.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Castle in the Air

“I shall die and then you'll all be sorry.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle