31 quotes found
“Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.”
“Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!”
“But my thoughts were more like poisons. I had so many, they made me sick.”
“You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat.”
“Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.”
“I dinna want to disappoint ye, but we's in a cellar right here, and it's full o' tatties.'After a while a voice said: 'So where izzit?''Maybe it's got the day off?''What's a demon need a day off fo...”
“I shivered again, remembering. I put the tip of one finger to my tongue. It tasted sharplike vinegar, like blood.Like money.”
“She was about to be married, and was frightened to death. And no-one would love her, ever again.”
“If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.”
“We might not win today" But Time is our best friend, HE will catch up with you and drag you down... Vengeance will be ours”
“It's all about balance, do you see? Balance is the trick. Keep the balance and - " she stopped. "You've ridden on a seesaw? One end goes up, one end goes down. But the bit in the middle, that stays...”
