Matt Holt

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“She’s weird, just like the rest of us,” Poseidon interrupted. “Speak for yourself! Just because I rule the dead and my pet is a dog with three heads, that doesn’t make me weird,” Hades said. Then he thought about it. “Oh wait, maybe it does.”
― Joan Holub, Uranus and the Bubbles of Trouble

“Abeke stopped to smile at a little boy with dirty cheeks who stooped at the entrance of an alley, quietly watching them pass. As she did, the boy sneered at her, then spit in her direction before running off. She watched him go with her mouth open. “With my remarkable powers of perception,” Rollan said beside her, “I’m getting the very subtle hint that people might … possibly … not like us here. But it’s hard to tell.”
― Marie Lu, The Evertree

“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix