“I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.”

“I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.”

“Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.”

“You needed at least three witches for a coven. Two witches was just an argument.”

“A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING.People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.”

“There were really only four kind of people in the world: men and women and wizards and witches.”

“Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.”