The Wee Free Men/Quotes

People say things like 'listen to your heart', but witches learn to listen to other things too. It's amazing what your kidneys can tell 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.

'I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire. There may be no survivors.'

'But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.'

Toad: 'Er ... you want to bring them back, then?'
Tiffany: 'Yes!'
Toad: 'It's just that's something not many people have ever wanted to do. They're not like brownies. If you get Nac Mac Feegles in the house, it's usually best to move away.'

'Them as can do, has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.'

—Granny Aching

That was how it worked. No magic at all. But that time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

This wasn't food; it was what food became if it had been good and had gone to food heaven.

'I never cried for Granny because there was no need to! She has never left me!'

This Queen woman, whoever she was, had been stealing children but Roland had beaten her, oh yes, and helped these two young children to get back as well. ... Obviously the girl had been very brave (this was the Baron speaking) but, well, she was nine, wasn't she? And didn't even know how to use a sword! Whereas Roland had fencing lessons at his school...

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