[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

When much is taken, something is returned.

Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.