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“What are acquaintance for, if not to supply the pleasures of gossip?”
“I might go anywhere and do any magic I pleased if I were Peter, not Prunella.”
“It is a mother's duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter.”
“... it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you.”
“Are you going? What shall you wear?""I shall go in what I am standing in," said Mak Genggang. "A witch is always appropriate whatever her attire.”
“The woman leant forward, her eyes flashing, a smile both triumphant and tender curving her mouth."You are *my* daughter," she said. "Can there be any doubt that you will be brilliant -- audacious -...”