“I like to switch things up by keeping things the same. People never expect it.”

“Things. They came up. That what things do. They come up. I can't be expected to keep track of them all”

“I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.”

“Being with other people is hard for me, even when I love them. People have different ways of seeing and feeling, and things they like and things they don't, and trying to keep up with all of that- trying to keep another person happy all the time--can be exhausting.”

“Now they were all moving to no effect-just moving, just switching things off and switching things on, just picking things up and putting things down and picking things up and stroking the cat and counting the mugs and fighting for air. It seemed that everything they did had already been done and done, and that everything they thought had already been thought and thought, and that this would never end. Excuse me said panic to each of them in turn. They had no mouth and they had to scream.”

“I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical".”