Miles away, down through an opening in the hills, he could catch glimpses of a road where motor-cars sometimes passed, and yet here, so removed from the arteries of the latest civilization, was a bat-haunted old homestead, where something unmistakably like witchcraft seemed to hold a very practical sway.
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
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Neil Gaiman
I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.
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Terry Pratchett
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad....
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Terry Pratchett
Pray to whatever you believe in that they don't send the snakes.
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Zoe Forward
So, you're the Santa Claus of the magic world with a naughty and nice list?
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Zoe Forward
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