"I wonder why everybody else looks like their doppelganger so far - like, I guess that is how we went about discovering any of them, but -"

"Couldn't tell you, but I'm excited to find out! What does being doppelgangers mean, exactly?"

"Seems to mean - matching personalities, more or less."

"More or less modulo... circumstances? But then how much flex remains in the circumstances that gets you the same personality in an important sense..."

“I’m more traumatized than Lucasta. Wizard kids have a heinous mortality rate.”

"...how heinous."

"A quarter of the kids who get into the school we attended, where it's safer, survive."

"Holy shit, I thought I was alarmed when I got a whiff of how much witch magic is combat-oriented but it's not like that!"

“If you give someone so much as a pen for free it means you’re dating because you have to try to scrimp every resource in order to survive.”

"I got a lot of mileage out of there being three tokens to gamble on the snack back with for free every week, I didn't care to gamble and they're a reasonably fungible currency."

"Do you need... stuff... or have you been out long enough that you are mostly set on stuff. - Bella do you want some of my clothes, I basically just wear this all the time now but you appear not to have changed into yours."

"I'm not related to your relevant ancestor, since I'm from another universe. I would take some clothes."

“We haven’t been out for very long but the outside world has much more stuff in it than the magic school.”

"Go get... as much of what's in my dresser as you can carry," May tells something invisible; she has by now adopted body language that makes it clear she is not talking to any people when she randomly issues commands. "What stuff is in the magic school?"

"What we bring in with us to a fairly punishing weight limit, barely illusioned nutrient slurry, basic furniture, soap and toilet paper, and educational materials but those're infested with monsters so people want more than one-to-a-customer return on ventures."

“Enclaves tend to accumulate more stuff over time as seniors leave things behind. Bella’s from an enclave but they haven’t had a lot of time to accumulate stuff.”

"Yeah, we didn't even have power sharers till my junior year. - do you have a great aunt on your mother's side -"

"Uh, maybe, but not as I've ever met?"

“Do you have three questions?”

"- yes I have!"

"Why aren't you touching the ground?"

"I can levitate, and I'm really clumsy."

"That's what I have magic shoes for."

It is incredibly cool that there are two of Bella and he’s not going to ask if she’s interested in boys, that would be incredibly premature at the least.

“If Lucasta could identify you two as similar it’s a bit of a pity we don’t have Nia along.”