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Witches Abroad:

Overview

Mirrors contain infinity.
Infinity contains more things than you think.
Everything, for a start.
Including hunger.
Because there's a million billion images, but only one soul to go around.
[p. 47]

Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.
[p. 83]

'And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no-one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire.'
[p. 137, Granny]

In Genua, stories came to life. In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true.
Remember some of your dreams?
[p. 147]

The wages of sin is death, but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
[p. 233]

She hated everything that predestined people, that fooled them, that made them slightly less than human.
[p. 239]

The trouble with witches is that they'll never run away from things they really hate.
And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them's a mongoose.
[p. 269]

[...] what was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark of the moon was only darkness.
But half-way between the two, when the moon was between the worlds of light and dark, when even the moon lived on the edge... maybe then a witch could believe in the moon.
[p. 269]

'Good and bad is tricky, she [Esme] said. 'I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.'
[p. 285]