“The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to that, the book never gave you the evidence of anything. It talked about "a handsome prince"... was he really, or was it just because he was a prince that people called handsome? As for "a girl who was as beautiful as the day was long"... well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light! The stories don't want you to think, they just wanted you to believe what you were told...”

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”

“Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.”

“Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything…”

“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

“Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead”

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