"I was afraid of death. I chose to remain behind. I sometimes wonder whether I oughtn't to have...well, that is neither here nor there..in fact, I am neither here nor there. I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead."
—Sir Nicholas, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“But you, Percy - you are part god, part human. You live in both worlds. You can be harmed by both, and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal. Monsters never die... They must be defeated again and again, kept at bay. Heroes embody that struggle. You fight the battles humanity must win, every generation, in order to stay human.”
—Chiron, The Sea of Monsters
Up where the smoke is all billowed and curled,
'Tween pavement and stars is the chimneysweep world.
When there's hardly no day nor hardly no night,
There's things half in shadow and halfway in light...
'Tween pavement and stars is the chimneysweep world.
When there's hardly no day nor hardly no night,
There's things half in shadow and halfway in light...
—Bert, Mary Poppins
