Witches of Lychford Quotes

“The telemarketers who called her up now seemed either desperate or resigned to the point of a mindless drone, until Judith, who had time on her hands and ice in her heart, engaged them in dark conversations that always got her removed from their lists.”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

“Judith hated nostalgia. It was just the waiting room for death.”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

“Judith realised, with horror, that they were heading over to talk to her, and couldn't find, at a quick glance, anyone else she knew well enough to get into a conversation with. There were, just occasionally, drawbacks to being a nasty old bitch.”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

“As Lizzie had seen so many times with victims, the harder your life had been, the harder it was to give yourself room for ethical choices. So were born cycles of abuse.”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

“Lizzie had come to understand that Sue’s mission in life was to say the things that she, or indeed anyone else, wouldn’t or couldn’t.”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

“There were, just occasionally, drawbacks to being a nasty, old bitch.”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

“She had genuinely been onside at first, and so when David Cummings had offered to pay her “expenses,” which had sorted her worries about keeping her old mum in the care home she liked, she’d only hesitated a moment: she was being paid to support a cause she supported anyway. They could waste their money on her if they liked. This was obviously just how grown-ups did things.”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

“That would be an actual miracle,” said Lizzie. “I never was sure what I thought about those.”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

“There’s a word people in business use a lot: disruptive. The market can never be stable, the best it can be is falling apart in useful ways. Like the universe in general, really. To disrupt the market in your favour is now seen as being the ultimate achievement. Create a climate of absolute uncertainty, continual fear about enormous change, and you’ll see people’s . . . well, I was about to say ‘true selves,’ but they don’t really have true selves, they’re continually falling apart too . . . you’ll see people concentrate on looking after themselves and their own, grabbing for familiar symbols. The right . . . brands, shall we say, can prosper hugely then, in the ultimate disruption.”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

“I scrubbed my door", said Judith, "with every magical cleansing agent I could think of. And Cillit Bang!”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

“Some of your predecessors found a packet of Oat So Simple an intellectual challenge.”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

“To human beings it won’t look or feel like a war, it’ll be more like . . . one of those modernist paintings you lot do, if it melted. Inside all your brains. Forever.”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford

“Out this way there was the lonely last pub, the Castle, which now had an angry chalkboard sign up that said “drinkers welcome” to indicate its dissatisfaction with other establishments’ fads like pub quizzes, bands, food, and, presumably, conversation.”
― Paul Cornell, Witches of Lychford