Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.

Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.