They’re females right enough, and they can make the impossible happen. I’d say that classifies them as witches. - Andre Norton

A foot of jade is of no value, an inch of time is to be prized.

Well, we don't know a lot, and most people don't want to learn more’n what's right before their eyes. You point out things that don’t fit into what they've always accepted, and they say it’s all your imagination and nothing like that is real.

There was a saying of the peasants—the rat cannot call the cat to account. But it was also true that if the moon moves but slowly, still it crosses the city.