Kiddo—here's a problem. We've got witches, we've got Evil, we've got an orphan, and we've got a kidnapping. What's the deal?

That's the trouble with a Trueheart House. It doesn't believe in being cautious when it comes to defeating evil.

I'm never going to have a crush on a girl," he promised himself. "It makes you look like a sick sheep.

The old sorceress was not given to berating herself herself, but she could not help but think she had made a mistake. Possibly the worst of her whole life.

This was the kind of woman she understood, a woman after her own cold heart.

It was a serious offense to invite a Deep Witch to cross the border of the Five Kingdoms. They had been banished many years before, together with werewolves and sorcerers.

Correct me if I'm wrong," said the bat, "but would the main ingredient of water soup be water?

I do believe losing your head has made you more intelligent.

Gubble was left standing in a puddle of black ink and blacker confusion.