Quotes from book

I Shall Wear Midnight

“Everything is a test.”

“First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these… sometimes led her to walk into doors.”

“Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.”

“These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.”

“Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.”

“One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.”

“The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.”

“When I am old I shall wear midnight.”

“If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.”

“I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.”

“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”

“One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.”

“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”

“Oh, Ivery angry a lot of the time," said Tiffany, "but I just put it away somewhere until I can do something useful with it.”

“People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”

“She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?'
'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.”