Baba Yaga Quotes

#1. You're the Baba Yaga?" He gazed at her in disbelief. "But the Baba Yaga is an ugly old crone, and you're, you're... not!

Deborah Blake

#2. When you tell the children tales of the Baba Yaga on a cold winter's night, you might remember to mention that whether or not the witch is wicked often depends on who is telling the story.

Deborah Blake

#3. A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.

Deborah Blake

#4. Not very smart," Chudo-Yudo growled. "Stalking a Baba Yaga." He showed a set of sharp white teeth. "Maybe he has a death wish. I could help with that You want me to eat him?

Deborah Blake

#5. She paid using the prettiest credit card, and then left it with the ticket seller as a gift. Along with a minor curse - a bladder infection and diarrhea - just because she was Baba Yaga, and certain things were expected.

Orson Scott Card

#6. Now that she knew credit cards were valuable, Baba Yaga began to collect as many of them as she could.

Orson Scott Card

#7. We can't leave just like that." Cat was appalled. "Where can we find you if we need you again?"
[Baba Yaga] "You can't. Listen, Little Drear, I hate saying good-byes. I have a good strategy for avoiding them."
"What's that?" asked Anton.
"I eat my guests.

Gregory Maguire

#8. Thanks, Baba. You are always such a comfort."
She gave him a wry look. "I know. I've been considering becoming a counselor. Or possibly a nurse."
Day shook his head. "If I were you, Baba Yaga, I'd stick to your day job.

Deborah Blake

#9. The world is always ruled by a maniac. - Baba Yaga

Michael Buckley

#10. There, weeping, a tsarevna lies locked in a cell.
And Master Grey Wolf serves her very well.
There, in her mortar, sweeping beneath the skies,
the demon Baba Yaga flies.
There Tsar Koschei,
he wastes away,
poring over his pale gold.

Catherynne M Valente

#11. Baba Yaga: " ... What are his powers"
Mirror on the wall: "He reads

Bill Willingham

#12. Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers?
Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything.

Bill Willingham

#13. The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.

Norm MacDonald

#14. Liam's lips tightened. "She's only a little girl. She doesn't know anything about swords. What if she cuts herself? It's sharp, right?"
"Of course it is sharp, Liam. What would be the point ot having a sword that wasn't?

Deborah Blake

#15. I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers.

Vijay Singh

#16. Broken things can be fixed and healed. Nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean.

Marika McCoola

#17. Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Naughty children have to be protected. Even if it's just from themselves.

Marika McCoola

#19. Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

Marcus Aurelius

#20. When you look back and realize there is no way you would have had a better life with another person, that's when the relationship or marriage becomes worth it.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#21. My brother, are you aware that you are presently taking the form of a rather large and distinctly emerald-hued bear? Not that it isn't an improvement on your usual excessive good lucks, but...

Deborah Blake

#22. If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche.

Ruth Reichl

#23. [Cat] found a complete set of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, with little tabs of paper sticking out. The were scrawled over with the witch's comments to herself, "Fun!" "Try this, but with exploding feathers!" and "Gotta love him
deeply sick.

Gregory Maguire

#24. But Jesus also wanted to demonstrate that a convincing argument rarely results in a changed heart. Hearts aren't transformed through well-rehearsed speeches; they're transformed when they see the truth and power of God demonstrated through a humble man or woman of God.

Tri Robinson

#25. Don't be disgusting.
Don't dare me. I majored in disgusting at Gulag Community College. Lucrezia Borgia taught cooking, and Madame Defarge taught knitting. Emperor Nero taught violin and also led the cheerleading squad. I skipped all my classes and failed with distinction.

Gregory Maguire

#26. And right away as soon as I started doing Pilates, about 2 to 3 weeks into it I could tell that my clothes were already fitting differently. And I felt stronger than ever. My core felt tighter than ever.

Daisy Fuentes

#27. Couldn't I just take up juggling fire over a pit of alligators?" Liam muttered. "I think it might be easier.

Deborah Blake

#28. Hounds and hearthstones, girl, haven't you ever heard a story about Koschei? He's only got the one. Act one, Scene one: pretty girl. Act one, Scene two: pretty girl gone!

Catherynne M Valente