“When the mountain quaked Like an elbow's nudgeLike a shout that something is wrongThe people awoke andKnew, yes, knew, that bandits had come”
“when we awoke someone had stolen the sea.”
“...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was...”
“I made out like a bandit. Not that I’ve ever made out with a bandit.”
“I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear.”
“Suddenly I shouted into the night air. 'Yes, yes, yes, it is true!"And now the world had some tension in it; now it twanged and vibrated with meaning and possibility! 'Yes, yes, fucking yes!”