Gretel & Hansel (2020)

Alice Krige: Witch

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• Witch : Say that again and I will turn your tongue into a flower, to remind you how pretty and dumb and temporary you've chosen to be.

• Witch : So hungry was I to realize my own powers, I hardly even chewed.

• Witch : I've been thinking, maybe it's for the best that Hansel isn't with us. He'll soon come to fear you, as all men should if they're smart. And fear so easily turns to hatred. Better that he remember you as you were, rather than as you're meant to be.

• Witch : We are made from the same matter. The same filth. Otherwise how would you know my story without me having to tell it to you?

• Witch : I envy you, standing at the precipice of your own experience. With everything ahead of you.

• Hansel : How'd you know?

  Witch : Because women often know things they aren't supposed to.

• Witch : This is your power. To see what is hidden and to take it.

• Witch : Careful with that, dear. I'd hate for you to start something you can't stop.

• Witch : Think less, my pretty, and know more.

• Witch : I very much doubt that a convent is a place for a girl with action in her bones.

• Witch : Finders keepers.

• Witch : But the thing about poison, is that out of everything in the big, bad world, nothing tastes as sweet.