Their families cordially detested one another.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

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.

at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is anything, this puts a bit of a strain on things. Outside the boundaries of the universe lie the raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas, all being created and uncreated chaotically like elements in fermenting supernovas. Just occasionally where the walls of the worlds have worn a bit thin, they can leak in.

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.