Ella turned to the fireplace where a blackened kettle hung over what Granny Weatherwax always called an optimist's fire: two logs and hope.

“Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not…”

“Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue",…”

“They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in…”

“I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled…”