The Wicked Witch of Arbornica Quotes

“Wisdom Pigtooth had been a beast of a man, ever overreaching himself in things which did not concern him. Namely the disciplining of Woodbine girls too idle to his mind to undertake her assigned chores and instead draw pictures in the spring thaw mud.

The sting of his rod on her back was a remembrance too sharp to be left to heal itself.

So he suffered early retirement and Wisdom Trillfone took his place.

Power corrupts and autocratic power spoils a good nature into the bargain. The cheery, indulgent and kindly corker transformed overnight into a bearded tyrant of desperate intensity.

Nanzie found he was a man to spare the rod, for he preferred to throw projectiles instead. In spite of his seventy winters he had a good throwing arm too. (Chapter 3)”
― Martyn X Brown, The Wicked Witch of Arbornica

“Over much of the Great Depression were these static pockets of resistance, each centred on a Mother Oak, for trees had a way of staying put. Long ago, as the evening fire stories told, things were indeed a little different until a sudden scattering of peoples occurred. Some said it was caused by famine, others blamed disease. Yet others declared a terrible evil had blighted the land, an evil called by an arcane and mysterious name.

Urban planning. (Chapter 2)”
― Martyn X Brown, The Wicked Witch of Arbornica