[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.