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“And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils and never draw another thing. Then it was embroidery with her, she had...”
“I knew the woodsy fragrance that accompanied Reed was his natural scent. It was one of the many things that made him hard to resist.”
“My whole world started to tilt. I could feel it, sliding ever so slightly off center.”
“I know some words floated through my ears, but my mind refused to absorb their meaning. I just shook my head slowly as the wall of pain washed over me, leaving me submerged and broken in the flood.”
“Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the...”
“I myself have seen this woman draw the stars from the sky; she diverts the course of a fast-flowing river with her incantations; her voice makes the earth gape, it lures the spirits from the tombs,...”
“If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.”
“Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.”
“A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING.People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thin...”
“One doesnt become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. Its to escape all that - to have a life of ones own, not an existen...”
“Witches dont look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.”
“Im a witch. Its what we do. When its nobody elses business, its my business.”
“Truth is in the guidance of the Coven. Is it a curse or a blessing?”
“You don't need none of that," she said. "You need headology.”
“That was the problem with modern day witches , thought Corso : they didn't have any secrets . Everything was out in the open , you could read all about them in any Who's Who or gossip column . Baro...”
“If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.”
“Merik swiveled his wrists slowly. At night, the temple was too dark to see the blood dripping from his arms, pooling on the granite flagstones. He felt it falling, though. Just as he felt the new, ...”
“I dont know how much more you can take. He laughed. Youre a witch. From a family of witches. My ex-wife is a witch. Apparently literally and figuratively. Plus my kids a witch. And I am probably so...”
“But a girl starting out in life might well say to herself: 'Is this it? You worked hard and denied yourself things and what you got at the end was hard work and self-denial?”
“Thats why we become witches: to show our scorn of pretending lifes a safe business, to satisfy our passion for adventure. Its not malice, or wickedness - well, perhaps it is wickedness, for most wo...”
