Gossiping's part of witchcraft, ' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.

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.

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.

Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded pro

I haven't got a lot of patience.

How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet?

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.

I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me.

People shouldn't find out how trashy I am.