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Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.


Franny Billingsley

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STARHAWK A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING.

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TERRY PRATCHETT For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.
THOMAS BROWNE SR. I'm a witch and witches burn.
JOSEPHINE ANGELINI I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.
ANYA TAYLOR-JOY The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.
JOHN JEWEL I’ve seen estrogen make princesses out of witches.
MARIE HOäG MBA We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren't able to burn.
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JIM MURRAY They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Families go and begin to disguise their children as witches. This is contrary to our way,
HUGO CHAVEZ I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.
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YOKO ONO I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.
ADOLPHE MENJOU Miles away, down through an opening in the hills, he could catch glimpses of a road where motor-cars...
SAKI Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
THOMAS SZASZ I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.
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GEORGE HERBERT Witches didn't need blood to survive, but humans didn't need wine, either.
SARAH J. MAAS Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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DACHA AVELIN I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.
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N.D. JONES Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.
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TERRY PRATCHETT Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning t...
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RAY BRADBURY Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.
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TERRY PRATCHETT My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"...
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PHILIP PULLMAN Whatever. I just won’t have Elena hurt, is all. Or the little red-headed witch.”

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L.J. SMITH Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to res...
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SOLANGE NICOLE On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park....
NICHOLAS GORDON Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.
JANET MONTGOMERY They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and ot...
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LORD DUNSANY Of course no one accused the old woman of being a witch. But she was foreign. Her words percolated u...
CARYS BRAY ...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mount...
TERRY PRATCHETT The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.
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CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE You no longer speak of your old friends, your Council, your home. I fear that you are forgetting the...
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DEBORAH BLAKE Liam jumped. "Jeez --you can talk!"
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Pete...
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STACEY T. HUNT [Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their...
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fables and their Muggle counterparts is that
Beed...
J.K. ROWLING W-what are you?"

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ANNE BISHOP All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches...
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Mikolay�...
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NEIL GAIMAN The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all...
KATE FORSYTH No true Witches today practice human sacrafice, torture, or any form of ritual murder.Anyone who doe...
STARHAWK The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed wi...
DEBORAH HARKNESS Me entró entonces la duda de si habría poseído alguna vez un don que no fuese el de la fabulació...
MARIE NDIAYE I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when mag...
CAROLYN MACCULLOUGH Bug? You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than m...
KIM HARRISON You bet your Grannie's Panties I will.
KIM HARRISON We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against t...
PHILIP PULLMAN Hold on to me!” Tedros yelled, hacking briars with his training sword.Dazed, Agatha clung to his c...
SOMAN CHAINANI If you ignored the benign ghost that haunted the place and the witch who lived inside, it was practi...
DEBORAH BLAKE Why is it every time a madman's prayers are answered, a witch burns?
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