Цитаты из книги Wintersmith

Look, just because a woman’s got no teeth doesn’t mean she’s wise. It might just mean she’s been stupid for a very long time.

Witches are very keen on pickles, as a rule, but the food they like best is free food. Yes, that’s the diet for your working witch: lots of food that someone else is paying for, and so much of it that there is enough to shove in your pockets for later.

At the moment three small fireballs circled the fire. Annagramma had made them. You could slay enemies with them, she’d said. They made the others uneasy. It was wizard magic, showy and dangerous. Witches preferred to cut enemies dead with a look. There was no sense in killing your enemy. How would she know you’d won?

“Yes, this has been a bit of a trying time all around,” said Miss Treason very calmly. “I shall write some letters, which you will take down to the village, and then you shall have your afternoon off. We shall hold the funeral tomorrow afternoon.”

“Sorry? You mean before you die?” said Tiffany.

“Why, of course! I don’t see why I shouldn’t have some fun!”

“Good thinkin’!” said Rob Anybody. “That’s the kind o’ sensible detail people usually fails tae consider.”

But tomorrow he’d get up early and ride over to Twoshirts with the letter. He liked writing them. They turned the world into a nicer place, because you didn’t have to include the bad bits.

Люди хотят, чтобы мир был историей, потому что истории звучат убедительно и они понятны. Люди хотят, чтобы мир был понимаем.

Начало и конец всегда наиболее опасны, особенно, если это касается жизни.

Yes, she’d made a mistake. Yes, it was her fault. But she wasn’t going to be bullied. You couldn’t let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people’s water-colours.

That’s what a snowman needs, a scarf to keep him warm …

That’s men for you, dear. They rain on your lava.

That’s justice. No excuses. You made a choice. You get what you chose.

Change the story, even if you don’t mean to, and the story changes you.

Anyone could be a witch at midnight, she'd thought, but you'd have to be really good to be a witch by noonlight.

We make happy endings, child, day to day. But, you see, for the witch there are no happy endings. There are just endings. And here we are...

People don't want to know what's really going to happen, only that it's going to be nice.