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.
Terry Pratchett
Related ...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mount... TERRY PRATCHETT She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h... CHIEF JOSEPH The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to be sure of her meaning before she... GRAHAM WALLAS A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments. VIRONIKA TUGALEVA Katsa sat in the darkness of the Sunderan forest and understood three truths. She loved Po. She want... KRISTIN CASHORE Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... CASSANDRA CLARE Now that’s what I call magic—seein’ all that, dealin’ with all that, and still goin’ on. I... TERRY PRATCHETT Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought ... CHARLES FINCH The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, ... TERRY PRATCHETT She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves. CARRIE RYAN The Forest is dark, dearie, The Forest is dark; The moment you think that you’re lost in the ... EMORY R. FRIE Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strang... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bo... BIBLE She has the most bizarre and beautiful soul I had ever seen. Her eyes shined always like a�... AKSHAY VASU Elise ignored her complaints and eased her deeper into the water, until it was almost to her chest. ... SUZAN TISDALE When her pony pals are down in the dumps, Fluttershy swoops in to cheer them up in her own sweet and... BRANDON T. SNIDER She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be sepa... SHANNON A. THOMPSON But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view... AYN RAND The most ironic thing was that, the thing she valued the most was freedom. For according to her, hap... PRADNYA CHABBI She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic. NIKKI ROWE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Rachel could not believe what she was hearing. Accepting that her magic worked was a huge step, yet ... CHRISTOPHER MOORE She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN Granny Weatherwax was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word t... TERRY PRATCHETT Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious. UNKNOWN She was incredibly responsible in the workplace, [but] she was incredibly socially immature. Greg [S... LINDA WOJAS When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. Th... MELINA MARCHETTA The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, he... PHILLIP NOYCE I have no recollection of the mirror thing. The thing I remember most was her sticking her head out ... SHAWN VARNEY And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seve... BIBLE She was nine when she came in, and we had her several months. Her home life was not the best. She wa... BRENDA WEBB Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerve... R.A. SALVATORE We didn't have an answer for her. She was the heart and soul of their team. They never felt out of a... DANNY BAKER Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul ... MARILYNNE ROBINSON Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and... JODI LYNN ANDERSON Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do... THOMAS HARDY Seven hundred years ago, Tersa had told [Daemon] the living myth was coming. Seven hundred years of ... ANNE BISHOP Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature ma... GEORGE CHAPMAN She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her. NIKKI ROWE She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... KEN FOLLETT I couldn't understand; cheating was the one thing I'd told her all those years ago would be unforgiv... GARTH RISK HALLBERG She was very good as a freshman, and then the latter part of her career her golf took a turn for the... DAN BROOKS She never let her illness get her down. I never once saw her without a smile on her face. She was so... LEANN SCHMIDT From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leavin... PETER S. BEAGLE A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his m... HENRY FIELDING She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, se... SHANNON CELEBI The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in h... JODI PICOULT She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times if she left him, harm would come to (... CHIEF JOSEPH She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN She searched for his face in crowds where he'd never be, in places that he'd never seen. In her mind... LAUREN VALENCIA They told her she would be freed if she made the video. She was also told they had killed another Am... ELLEN TUTTLE She was truly happy for the first time in her life, and it felt just like living in a small room pai... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or conf... JEFFREY EUGENIDES A few years later I learned that she had a kid. I did the math and came to the obvious conclusion th... DYLAN CALLENS Of course no one accused the old woman of being a witch. But she was foreign. Her words percolated u... CARYS BRAY When a wildflower sings the song of love in the wilderness of a forest, no one is there to appreciat... DEBASISH MRIDHA During a famine, the father and stepmother of Hansel and Gretel abandon them in a forest so that the... STEVEN PINKER Oh no." Lorelai pulled her hand from Kol's, her skin prickling with heat from absolute humiliation. ... C.J. REDWINE I saw her in a jacket, weather was kinda cold, but her cheeks were still rosy - she had a warm soul. DEDRICK D. L. PITTER She couldn’t walk away from him again. Her heart couldn’t take it and she didn’t think his cou... KATIE REUS This week, we were supposed to be ordering her graduation announcements and sending her resume to co... AMANDA DAVIS My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own... NATASCHA MCELHONE When I first told her, the thing that upset her the most were her journals and her diaries - that is... ELLIOTT MINTZ The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l... LEO TOLSTOY They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM She put her arm around the young driver and reassured her the important thing is everyone is OK and ... JUDD EVERHART Once Doc got an idea in her head that she was going to do something, you didn't stop her. She had th... ED HARRIS All her friends told her she is crazy, that she should sell it on eBay. But she said that giving it ... GLORIA SWIFT Amanda Leonard of Marquette just joined the team this week. She's a high jumper. I saw her jumping i... TOM BARNES Mary was one who possessed power over her own spirit--rare gift, given to none but those who do some... GEORGE MACDONALD He took time to explain the course of the disease and he supported Karen and assured her that he wou... JOELLYN SCHULTZ She was patrolling the forest enforcing the no-fire ban. She got out of her government vehicle with ... JEFF DORSCHNER Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should ... MARIE RUTKOSKI Who is most likely to bother about your happiness? You, yourself. So like yourself, love yourself, c... EVERSKEPTIC So now the sky was falling. Maybe the end of the world. Maybe Jesus coming again. That s... MARY CONNEALY She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK Her mother told her once that her father was sick. That the sickness made him do it. She made it see... ANAIS TORRES This sudden jump turned her driving experience upside down and her whole world upside down. She lost... ELBERT HATCHETT Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there i... PETER S. BEAGLE This was our house. Mine and hers. I know she’d sneak over to the rectory every once in a while an... TIFFANY REISZ She shrank into her chair, sure that if he could see her now, he would know. The truth would be evid... MARISSA MEYER It pained her that a few hundred words in an also-ran newspaper could get her kicked out. That damne... RICHARD CASTLE I expected her to be pleased and excited. Sadly, she was no such thing. When it arrived my mother bu... GREG DYKE She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he... BERNARDO BATIZ I suppose poets have written sonnets for a thousand years about being in love. A lot of people say, ... ROBERT BLAKE She and I had talked about the shows that she would be great in once that year was up. I was certain... BONNIE MONTE They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more ... BIBLE I had an uneventful few days," it told her. "The most exciting thing was an hour-long lecture from t... DEREK LANDY I wanted to throw up. Her intestine was pulled away from the wall of her stomach. That had to be rep... CHERYL LUKER Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Our coach told us she would be the X-factor, and she was. She was amazing. We had our hands in her f... AMY DONOVAN Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled beca... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH She wasn't crying, she didn't even sound frightened. She told me her plane was hijacked and that the... TED OLSON She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first pla... LESLYE WALTON I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her... JAIME CLAMPITT In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY He was supposed to be the first man to tell her that she was beautiful and help her determine who sh... ANAIS TORRES
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TERRY PRATCHETT The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ... TERRY PRATCHETT The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who t... TERRY PRATCHETT I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said i... TERRY PRATCHETT In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. TERRY PRATCHETT No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ... TERRY PRATCHETT Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w... TERRY PRATCHETT At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings a... TERRY PRATCHETT Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. TERRY PRATCHETT I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ... TERRY PRATCHETT The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valle... TERRY PRATCHETT She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their ... TERRY PRATCHETT His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh... TERRY PRATCHETT Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded ... TERRY PRATCHETT Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We ... TERRY PRATCHETT The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last ... TERRY PRATCHETT Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. TERRY PRATCHETT Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. TERRY PRATCHETT The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af... TERRY PRATCHETT Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying iso... TERRY PRATCHETT Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantasti... TERRY PRATCHETT Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when yo... TERRY PRATCHETT The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ar... TERRY PRATCHETT "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary... TERRY PRATCHETT A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. TERRY PRATCHETT Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ... TERRY PRATCHETT It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul... TERRY PRATCHETT An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ... TERRY PRATCHETT A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. TERRY PRATCHETT Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... TERRY PRATCHETT The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then... TERRY PRATCHETT For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l... TERRY PRATCHETT In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. TERRY PRATCHETT Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. TERRY PRATCHETT The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. TERRY PRATCHETT God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh... TERRY PRATCHETT