So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.

A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.

Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.