“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”

“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims…”

“She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.”

“The sergeant's widow told you a lie when she said I flogged her. I never flogged her. She flogged herself.”

“A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.”

“The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.”

“Kiki-The-Demure: Once when I was little She tried to give me castor oil. I scratched and bit her so, she never tried again. Ha! She must have thought she held the devil between her knees. I squirmed, blew fire through my nostrils, multiplied my twenty claws by a hundred, my teeth by one thousand, and finally — disappeared as if by magic.
Toby-Dog: I wouldn't dare do that. You see, I love her. I love her enough to forgive her even the torture of the bath.”

“Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself”

“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.”

“All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.”