Witch quotes
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"Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead."
"Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular."
"Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them."
"His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation."
"If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch."
"Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them."
"And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?"
"Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship."
"No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will."
"Nothin’ wrong with witchfinding. I’d like to be a witchfinder. It’s just, well, you’ve got to take it in turns. Today we’ll go out witchfinding, an’ tomorrow we could hide, an’ it’d be the witches’ turn to find US."
"Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati."
"She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem."
"Come on, Rachel!" Jenks shrilled. "You're a badass, not a bad witch!"
