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To Tiffany's surprise, Nanny Ogg was weeping gently. Nanny took another swig from her flagon and wiped her eyes. 'Cryin' helps sometimes,' she said. '...more

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...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that th...more

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Er, excuse me,' said the man as Nanny Ogg turned away, 'but what is that on your shoulders?''It's. . . a fur collar,' said Nanny.'Excuse me, but I jus...more

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No,' she said. 'No, I don't reckon that's what I do now. Are you watchin', Mrs Gogol? Are you watchin' real close?' Her gaze travelled the room and re...more

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But a girl starting out in life might well say to herself: 'Is this it? You worked hard and denied yourself things and what you got at the end was har...more

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Here you are. Would you like some pickles?”“Pickles gives me the wind something awful.”“In that case—”“Oh, I wasn’t saying no,” Mistress Weatherwax sa...more

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Tiffany jumped when she saw a balloon sail up above the trees, catch the wind, and swoop away, but it turned out to be just a balloon and not a lump o...more

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Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case the...more

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The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

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She’d struck Esk once before – the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough idea of what to expect from life.

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You mean it's my destiny?" she said at last.Granny shrugged. “Something like that. Probably. Who knows?

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You mean it's my destiny? she said at last.Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows?

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It might have interested Newt to know that, of the thirty-nine thousand women tested with the pin during the centuries of witch-hunting, twenty-nine t...more

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I don’t reckon it’s allowed, going round setting fire to people,” said Adam. “Otherwise people’d be doin’ it all the time.”“It’s all right if you’re r...more

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The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.