They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn’t.
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.
Million-to-one chances, crop up nine times out of ten.
Magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass.
It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what – you’re attempting can’t be done.
A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path of the bicycle of history.
