She’d struck Esk once before – the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough idea of what to expect from life.

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.

Do you know how wizards like to be buried?""Yes!""Well, how?"Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs."Reluctantly.

Red sky at night, the city's alight.

High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat.

You mean it's my destiny? she said at last.Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows?

You mean it's my destiny?" she said at last.Granny shrugged. “Something like that. Probably. Who knows?

A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.

Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.

I'm here for you in the same way that you're here for me, each person is an intricate piece of infinity.

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.

By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.