"She’d never liked the Brontes, had always considered them a bit silly, and that the whole business could have been sorted out in four chapters if only people had talked a bit more rather than wandering around looking rumpled and tortured"

"I don't have any shoes"
"Well, there are lots of shoes in London. You should buy some. I have three pairs, you can have some"

"You asked a unicorn for help"
"Indeed I did"

"What was that?"
"Oh, nothing, I'm just having some Cockfosters"