Chantel

“Two of them lurked in the ruined graveyard. Two shadowy figures, one hunched and squat, the other lean and menacing, both of them Olympic-grade lurkers. If Bruce Springsteen had ever recorded “Born to Lurk,” these two would have been on the album cover. They had been lurking in the fog for an hour now, but they had been pacing themselves and could lurk for the rest of the night if necessary, with still enough sullen menace left for a final burst of lurking around dawn.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Do you know how magic works?
The kind of magic that gets reindeer to fly in the sky? The kind that helps Father Christmas travel around the world in a single night? The kind that can stop time and make dreams come true?
Hope.
That's how.
Without hope, there would be no magic.”
― Matt Haig, The Girl Who Saved Christmas

“Why do we desire, above all other things, that which has the greatest power to destroy us?”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“What are you going to use?" said Ridcully, as the trolley rocketed through the steam. "The Seismic Reorganizer, the Attractive Point or the Incendiary Surprise?"

"Yo," said the Dean, with satisfaction.

"What, all three at once?"

"Yo!"

"That's going a bit far, isn't it? And incidentally, if you say 'yo' one more time, Dean, I will personally have you thrown out of the University, pursued to the rim of the world by the finest demons that thaumaturgy can conjure up, torn into extremely small pieces, minced, turned into a mixture reminiscent of steak tartare, and turned out into a dog bowl.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man