"She would have given anything to be able to transform herself, or anything else, so her world wasn’t..."

“She would have given anything to be able to transform herself, or anything else, so her world wasn’t just boring walls and boring dirt. A real witch ought to be able to do magic by instinct. She ought to be able to make mystical things happen, by sheer will, or with a profound enough belief.”

- All the Birds in the Sky, Book 2, chapter 5.