“And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch.And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?”

“Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story...""Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.”

“Tell me the story, Pew. . . .It was a woman.You always say that.There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list?Then there is the woman you love.Who's she?That's another story.”

“And in the cave there lived a wicked old witch. Did she ever some out? Not yet.”

“When I was little, I always thought I’d be Cinderella, but I guess this makes me the wicked witch.”

“All the things which had uses. All the mountains which had names. We'll give them new names, but the old names are there, somewhere in time..." -Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles”