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Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more then Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was r...

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

I don’t reckon it’s allowed, going round setting fire to people,” said Adam. “Otherwise people’d be doin’ it all the time.” “It’s all right if you’re religious,” said Brian reassuringly. “And it stops the witches from goin’ ...

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

D’yer see it? This finger, laddie, could send ye to meet yer Maker!” Sgt. Deisenburger stared at the black and purple nail a few inches from his face. As an offensive weapon it rated quite highly, especially if it was ever used in the preparation...

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pi...

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whoopee", said Crowley.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Jaime had never realised that trees made a sound when they grew, and no-one else had realised it either, because the sound is made over hundreds of years in waves of twenty-four hours from peak to peak. Speed it up, and the sound a tree makes is .

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Heaven has no taste." "Now-" "And not one single sushi restaurant." A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Well, Hell was worse, of course, by definition. But Crowley remembered what Heaven was like, and it had quite a few things in common with Hell. You couldn’t get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was al...

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch