“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”
Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game
Variant: We’re the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.
Source: Ender's Game
“They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.”
— Tanith Lee, book Volkhavaar
Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 11 (p. 100)
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