A witch needed to make people believe she knew what to do next, even if she didn’t. (ISWM)
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‘There have been a lot of those coincidences lately,’ said Tiffany.
‘Aye,’ said Rob, grinning, ‘it must be another coincidence.’ (ISWM) Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze. (ISWM)
.... the Nac Mac Feegle always smelled something like slightly drunk potatoes. (ISWM)
If you do not yet know who the Nac Mac Feegle are: 1) be grateful for your uneventful life; and 2) be prepared to beat a retreat if you hear anyone about as high as your ankles shout ‘Crivens!’ They are, strictly speaking, one of the faerie folk, but it is probably not a good idea to tell them this if you are looking forward to a future in which you still have your teeth. (ISWM)
People are often so busy living that they never stopped to wonder why. (ISWM)
.... like it or not, the witch was the pointy hat, and the pointy hat was the witch. (ISWM)
There were really only four types of people in the world: men and women and wizards and witches. (ISWM)
When you were a witch you were all witches... (ISWM)
‘I’ve learned to recognise the way people don’t say things.’ (MR)
‘It’s all just...people.’ (MR)
‘I wish people would not be so careless about what they believe.’ (MR)
‘To be frank, the problem here is not that you are women. As such, that is. But you persist in maintaining that you are. You see? We can’t have that.’ (MR)
‘A famous last stand, sir?’ said Jackrum. He spat expertly into the fire in the tumbledown hearth. ‘To hell with them, sir. That’s just a way of dyin’ famous!’ (MR)
‘We must take advantage of the “tide of fortune”’.
‘I know about tides, sir. They leave little fish gaspin’.’ (MR) Tea was an amazingly useful thing. It gave you an excuse to talk to anyone. (MR)
... the brain treacherously does not stop thinking just because you want it to... (MR)
‘“Pretty please with sprinkles on top” is not a recognised method of interrogation!’ (MR)
The trouble with Polly was that she had a mind that asked questions even when she really, really didn’t want to know the answers. (MR)
What goes around, comes around - or stops. (MR)
... that face that could only be called homely.*
* And even then it was the kind of home that had a burned-out vehicle on the lawn. (MR) ‘There is only three things you need to remember, which are, viz: one obey orders two give it to the enemy good and hard three don’t die.’ (MR)
‘It’s very ingenious.’
‘How does it work, then?’ ‘Oh, I didn’t understand what he said. It was all about ... numbers. But it certainly sounded very clever.’ (MR) ‘Special skills?’
‘Stayin’ alive, corporal, come what may.’ (MR) |
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