Baba Yaga Quotes

“Broken things can be fixed and healed. Nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean.”
― Marika McCoola

“Naughty children have to be protected. Even if it's just from themselves.”
― Marika McCoola, Baba Yaga's Assistant

“Does this dress make me fat?”
“Of course it does. Don’t you own a mirror?”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“Perhaps you would be better off finding some way to embrace your new nature, instead of fighting it.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“Life has a way of changing the path you are on when you least expect it.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“Hounds and hearthstones, girl, haven't you ever heard a story about Koschei? He's only got the one. Act one, Scene one: pretty girl. Act one, Scene two: pretty girl gone!”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“It was hard to say which one was real – the face she showed the world during the day or the one she hid at night. Maybe neither.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“The taxi driver dropped them off back at the Wabasha Street Caves and drove off clutching a huge tip and muttering under his breath about dog drool on his upholstery. In return, Chudo-Yudo muttered something about taxi drivers tasting good with ketchup.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“He came outta nowhere, and he was like Jackie Chan or something. I mean, I never saw anybody fight like that.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“It might be a wild-goose chase.”
“I am quite fond of geese, myself,” Mikhail said.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“Maybe it is time to get over your daddy issues and just deal with it.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“But it’s our duty as Yaga, living in this Yaga house, to talk to them and give them one last wonderful evening reliving their memories and celebrating their lives, before they pass through The Gate and return to the stars.”
― Sophie Anderson, The House with Chicken Legs

“Dear Baba Yaga,

I feel like I'm forever missing something inside myself. With people, without people, wonderful job, jobless. I always feel like there's a gaping hole. What is missing?

BABA YAGA:

By rooting in the hole you make the hole wider; you scrape , its walls you open fresh soil--the earth of it smells blacker & blacker, you see the hole & the hole only, you live within it always; if you find yrself eating fruits in the good forest you remember the hole & go to look if it is still there dropping yr fruit-meat all the whiles. & if you think think think only of the hole it will become the great work & mystery of yr life, & you will die in the hole as you lived in it.”
― Taisia Kitaiskaia, Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles

“Why do you two have swords?"
"Yes," Day asked. "Why do we?" He headed toward the door without waiting for the answer.
"There is a gigantic beast rising from the lake and coming toward the hut," Gregori said, as if he'd just told them the neighbors were coming for breakfast. "We should probably stop it before it gets here.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Charming

“My brother, are you aware that you are presently taking the form of a rather large and distinctly emerald-hued bear? Not that it isn't an improvement on your usual excessive good lucks, but...”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Charming

“My name is Koshka, and this Human person is Jazz. She is the protégé of the Baba Yaga Bella, and I am Bella’s Chudo-Yudo.”
“Oh,” said the Dwarf, and doffed his hat, briefly revealing a shiny bald spot before putting it back on again. “Why didn’t you say so?” He scowled. “I thought you were door-to-door salesmen.”
“Do you get a lot of that in the Otherworld?” Jazz asked, genuinely interested in the answer. Somehow she hadn’t imagined that would be a problem here.
Smythe shook his head. “Not yet. But I’ve heard all about them, and I expect they’ll turn up any day.”
― Deborah Blake, Wickedly Spirited

“Only one kiss. That was what he had intended. But Ciera’s lips were sweet like the juice of a pomegranate, and her skin under his hands felt like velvet. When she put her arms around him, he deepened the kiss, pulling the pins out of her hair until it cascaded over her shoulders. The tiny jingle of the bits of metal falling to the floor was almost lost in the moan she let out when he moved his lips down her neck, and then he was lost too.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“Words shouldn’t be dirty or clean
But definitely sweet,
On the tongue, in the mind.”
― Jane Yolen, Finding Baba Yaga

“Don't be disgusting.
Don't dare me. I majored in disgusting at Gulag Community College. Lucrezia Borgia taught cooking, and Madame Defarge taught knitting. Emperor Nero taught violin and also led the cheerleading squad. I skipped all my classes and failed with distinction.”
― Gregory Maguire

“Couldn't I just take up juggling fire over a pit of alligators?" Liam muttered. "I think it might be easier.”
― Deborah Blake, Wickedly Ever After

“Barbara felt lightheaded, almost dizzy with what she was about to say. But she said it anyway. "As you wish, Your Majesty. In that case, I am afraid I must resign my position as Baba Yaga. If I am forced to choose between the work I was destined to do and the man I was destined to love, I choose the man.”
― Deborah Blake, Wickedly Ever After

“You might even say their bark is as bad as their bite.”
― Deborah Blake, Wickedly Spirited

“I had lost my connection with the universal energy and gained in its place precognition, visions, and a healing gift I could not control.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“She narrowed her eyes at Ciera. “You know, for a smart lady, you’re kinda dumb about some real-life stuff, aren’t you?”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“I also juggle,” he said in a grave tone, “and am quite adept with a deck of cards.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“The wellness remembers the deep living of the wound, & so is happier than any easy health.”
― Taisia Kitaiskaia, Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles

“The witch turned this way and that, "I think I've kept my figure, don't you?" she asked Mewster.
"Who else would want it?"
"Don't be snarky." She batted her eyelashes at her reflection. "I do believe I have my mother's eyes."
"Maybe it's time you give them back. Your mother's bee dead since the reign of Oleg the Incontinent.”
― Gregory Maguire, Egg & Spoon

“Whoever came ... did so when their prayers had gone unanswered, when the mortal healers had thrown up their hands. They came in the depths of their despair.”
― Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, The Witch and the Tsar

“Thanks, Baba. You are always such a comfort."
She gave him a wry look. "I know. I've been considering becoming a counselor. Or possibly a nurse."
Day shook his head. "If I were you, Baba Yaga, I'd stick to your day job.”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Charming

“He gave a good yell, for Baba Yaga at her best caused strong windows to crack and fall out of their frames."
From "Baba Yaga and the Sorcerer's son”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Harrowing the Dragon