Joan DeArtemis

“Note, too, that fiction writers inevitably catch their central characters in situations involving ambiguities, not contradictories. The marshal in High Noon was being asked to choose not between a good and a bad but between two goods (or two bads, depending upon your angle of view).”
― Eugene L. Lowry, The Homiletical Plot: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form

“He cleared his throat. “Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“And the school bellowed: “Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they’re bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, So teach us things worth knowing, Bring back what we’ve forgot, Just do your best, we’ll do the rest, And learn until our brains all rot.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“It was now reading the sign that said Privet Drive —no, looking at the sign; cats couldn’t read maps or signs.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone