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a witch Quotes

Six of the best book quotes from a witch
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″ ‘Laugh while you can,’ warned the witch, ‘but just wait. I’ll have the last laugh, Mister Bear. Oh, indeed I will!’ ”
Bill Peet
author
Big Bad Bruce
book
a witch
Bruce
Roxy
characters
indeed
last
to warn
to laugh
to wait
concepts
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“One drop of dwindling. Two blurps of belittling. A smidgeon of minikin. A half teaspoon of twurp. A shift of shortening. And then one pinch of kapoot should do it.”
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“He was sure the crafty old witch planned to fix him for good. If she could shrink him down to a runt of a thing she could turn him into a tadpole, or into a flea, or make him disappear altogether.”
Bill Peet
author
a witch
Bruce
Roxy
characters
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“Did the slave-woman dream (asks the cat) or did a witch truly take her baby? And, if a witch truly came, did the witch tell the truth, or did she take the baby, roast it, and eat it at a witches picnic?”
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It begins with a slave-woman giving birth to a daughter in the frozen depths of winter. A witch appears, asking for the child, promising to raise it as a shaman.
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“One day a certain Monsieur Pierre appears there, the Rue Broca, a most unusual Paris street. The children know that he is a witch in disguise.”

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