The Nac Mac Feegle were indeed ferocious and fearsome fighters, with the minor drawback – from their point of view – that seconds into any fight, sheer enjoyment took over, and they tended to attack one another, nearby trees and, if no other target presented itself, themselves. (ISWM)
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'A spill word is a word that somebody almost says, but doesn't.' (ISWM)
'The best disguise for a witch is a rather cheap witch's outfit!' (ISWM)
Even a witch can be out-looked by a cat that has had it up to here …. (ISWM)
You try to make plans for people, and people make other plans. (ISWM)
'… the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.' (ISWM)
'Well, as a lawyer I can tell you that something that looks very simple indeed can be incredibly complicated, especially if I'm being paid by the hour. The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.' (ISWM)
Roland has succeeded in banishing the dreadful aunts, the Baron's sisters who, frankly, even the old Baron thought were as nasty a pair of old ferrets as any man should find down the trousers of his life. (ISWM)
People often didn't stop to think. They thought as they went along. Sometimes it was a good idea. Just to stop moving, in case you moved the wrong way. (ISWM)
'I am not brazen and I don't huss!' (ISWM)
It was impossible to embarrass a Feegle. They just couldn't grasp the idea. (ISWM)
That was the thing about thoughts. They thought themselves, and then dropped into your head in the hope that you would think so too. You had to slap them down, thoughts like that; they would take over if she let them. And then it would all break down, and nothing would be left but the cackling (ISWM)
Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient. (ISWM)
… anything goes with garlic. Except custard. (ISWM)
… the Feegles themselves took a bath only when something reminded them, such as an eclipse of the moon. (ISWM)
'Ye will bring to mind, brother o' mine, that there was times when ye should stick your head up a duck's bottom rather than talk?'
Daft Wullie looked down at his feet. 'Sorry Rob. I couldnae find a duck the noo.' (ISWM) 'Why is it, Rob Anybody, that you persist in lying when you are caught red-handed?'
'Ah, weel, that's an easy one, miss, said Rob Anybody, who was technically the head man of the Nac Mac Feegles. 'After all, ye ken, what would be the point of lyin' when you had nae done anything wrong?' (ISWM) The problem with getting angry at Nac Mac Feegles was that it was like getting angry at cardboard or the weather; it didn't make any difference. (ISWM)
The Nac Mac Feegle could be pretty worrying to those who did not know them very well, although now she thought about it, they could be pretty worrying however long you had known them; a Feegle in your life very soon changed it. (ISWM)
'I have seen horrible things, and some of them all the more horrible because they were, well, normal.' (ISWM)
'I make it my business. I'm a witch. It's what we do. When it's nobody else's business, it's my business,' said Tiffany quickly. (ISWM)
She couldn't tell if he had really come to his senses, because the man had so few of them at the best of times, it was hard to know if he had any at all. (ISWM)
Everybody needs a witch, but sometimes they just don't know it. (ISWM)
'… what is a pie to a happy ending?' (UA)
'There should be no slaves, even slaves to instinct.' (UA)
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