Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, "It shouldn't be like this." Her mentor replies, "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.