"Tessa: I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?"Will: "I've never swum naked in the Thames, but I know I wouldn't like it.""But think how entertaining for sightseers,"said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin."
"You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that."
"I thought... that we could at least talk about books."
"It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them."
"Caliph Vathek and his dark hordeAre bound for Hell, you won’t be bored!Your faith in me will be restored—Unless this token you find untowardAnd my poor gift you have ignored."
"She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one."