It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Happy endings are still endings.

And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.