Which Witch? Quotes

“Stupid women were lured into it and assured they would become young and beautiful if they let themselves be pummeled and pounded and smeared with sticky creams, and have their faces lifted and their stomachs flattened. They paid a lot of money to Madame Olympia, who would put a little bit of magic into the creams and ointments that she used so that at first they did look marvelous. But it was the kind of magic that wore off very quickly, leaving the women even uglier than before so that they would rush back to her and pay her more money and the whole thing would start again.”
― Eva Ibbotson, Which Witch?

“But of course he knew, all of them knew. There is only one kind of a person a wizard can marry, and that is a witch.”
― Eva Ibbotson, Which Witch?

“Happiness is almost as good as magic for altering a person's looks.”
― Eva Ibbotson, Which Witch?

“Ms. Wrack's mother, Mrs. Wrack, had been a mermaid: a proper one who lived on a rock and combed her hair and sang. But sailors had never been lured to their doom by her, partly because she looked like the back of a bus and partly because modern ships are so high out of the water that they never even saw her”
― Eva Ibbotson, Which Witch?

“free,’ said Arriman, who was always jolly at breakfast.”
― Eva Ibbotson, Which Witch?

“Todcaster”
― Eva Ibbotson, Which Witch?