'If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.' (HFS)
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... she was a witch and a teacher and that's a terrible combination. They want things to be right. They like things to be correct. (HFS)
'There's ways and ways of not askin', if you get my meaning. People like to see a happy witch.' (WFM)
'First sight is when you can see what's really there, not what you heid tells you ought to be there. Ye saw Jenny, Ye saw the horseman, Ye saw them as real thingies second sight is dull sight, it's seeing only what you expect to see.' (WFM)
You couldn't tell someone with half his face dyed dark blue and a sword as big as he was that you weren't really a witch. You couldn't disappoint someone like that. (WFM)
... a witch always listens to other people's conversations. (WFM)
Witches don't like to be seen running. It looks unprofessional. (WFM)
Witches took the view that they helped society in all kinds of ways which couldn't easily be explained but would become obvious if they stopped doing them, and that it was worth six pence and one half-penny not to find out what these were. (TG)
'Being noticed is what a witch is all about.' (LL)
You’re 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 basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is ‘Don’t do what you will, do what I say’. The natural size of a coven is one. (WA)
... a group of witches wasn't a coven, it was a small war .... (SLF)
“We’re witches, Tiffany. We has the power for a reason. We just ‘as to make sure as it’s the right reason …” (SC)
… if a witch started thinking of anyone as “just” anything that would be the first step on a well-worn path that could lead to, oh, to poisoned apples, spinning wheels and a too-small stove …. (SC)
A witch is always on the edge, between the light and the dark, good and bad, making choices every day, judging all the time. It was what made her human. (SC)
Why were elderly witches so nosy? But then she thought: Actually, all witches are nosy. It’s part of what being a witch is. And she relaxed. (SC)
It’s not much using being a witch unless you look like one. (WS)
‘…there’s no male witches, only silly men’ (ER)
''scuse me,’ said the raven, ‘but how come Miss Ogg became Mrs Ogg? Sounds like a bit of a rural arrangement, if you catch my meaning.’
WITCHES ARE MATRILINEAL, said Death. THEY FIND IT MUCH EASIER TO CHANGE MEN THAN TO CHANGE NAMES. (TOT) 'Human being first, witch second; hard to remember, easy to do.' (ISWM)
'Sometimes what is legal isn't what is right, and sometimes it needs a witch to tell the difference. And sometimes a copper too, if you have the right kind of copper. Clever people know this. Stupid people don't. And the trouble is, stupid people can be oh so clever.' (ISWM)
'And though nobody's saying it, we're locked in here for our protection. You see, everyone else is locked out, and although they sometimes act dumb, policemen can't help being clever. They know that people need witches, they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right.' (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)
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)
'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)
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