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  • #1
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #2
    Terry Pratchett
    “Your friend Mr. Tulip would perhaps like part of your payment to be the harpsichord?" said the chair.
    "It's not a --ing harpsichord, it's a --ing virginal," growled Mr. Tulip. "One --ing string to a note instead of two! So called because it was an instrument for --ing young ladies!"
    "My word, was it?" said one of the chairs. "I thought it was just of sort of early piano!”
    Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

  • #3
    Robert B. Reich
    “The idea of a “free market” separate and distinct from government has functioned as a useful cover for those who do not want the market mechanism fully exposed. They have had the most influence over it and would rather keep it that way. The mythology is useful precisely because it hides their power.”
    Robert B. Reich, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

  • #4
    Sara Pascoe
    “The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #5
    Sara Pascoe
    “On the end of my bed. He’s short, round and bald, with a tartan loin cloth, and what looks like a spout on the top of his head,’ Bryony said. ‘You flatter me,’ came the snide male voice. ‘But it’s a valve.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #6
    Sara Pascoe
    “He thrust his shoulders back and spoke in a whisper that sounded like the hiss of a snake.
    ‘Yes, the very battle between good and evil, played out even in the lowliest of lives like yours. Witches killing dogs because they did not get their favourite drink.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #7
    Sara Pascoe
    “The summer sun bowing out threw slashes of colour between the buildings. London looked big, empty, and lonely. She stood in the doorway, like a cat trying to make up its mind.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #8
    Sara Pascoe
    “Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #9
    Sara Pascoe
    “Raya knew this type of girl – they never liked her. Usually they’d make fun of her, behind her back, but loud enough for her to hear. She was too alternative, too poor and too cynical – the foster kid – to be of any interest to these social climbers.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #10
    Sara Pascoe
    “Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #11
    Sara Pascoe
    “And she was right. No matter how they tried, the two humans, with the cat but without the microchip, couldn’t connect to headquarters. Raya heard a loud popping sound in her mind, like a huge rubber band being snapped, like a glider plane released from a Piper Cub.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #12
    Sara Pascoe
    “Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #13
    Sara Pascoe
    “What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked.
    ‘Malaria.’ Oscar said.
    ‘Oh, great.’
    ‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored
    the cat.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #14
    Sara Pascoe
    “Oo, I like a good cat fight – especially when it doesn’t involve me,’ Oscar said.
    ‘Shut up!’ Bryony and Raya said simultaneously. A hairline crack formed in the ice between them.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #15
    Sara Pascoe
    “She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For



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