Gretel & Hansel Quotes

  • Hansel: Tell me the fairy tale again.

    Gretel: It's too scary, you'll start seeing things that aren't there.

  • [to Gretel and Hansel as she kicks them out of their house]

    Gretel & Hansel's Mother: Dig yourselves some pretty little graves, and dig one for your mother, too.

  • The Hunter: Kindness is its own reward. But cruelty is a self-inflicted wound. The wicked earn a living by deception, but the one who plants righteousness gathers a true harvest. Indeed, those who do what is right will live a good life. Those who pursue evil will die.

    Gretel: But everyone dies.

    The Hunter: Indeed, but not right now.

  • 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.

  • [last lines]

    Hansel: You'll see my face again

    [as he rides away]

    Hansel: but you haven't told me where he's taking me

  • Hansel: Why do you always see a problem? Something behind or under, something hidden?

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Gretel: I don't have to see things to know that they're there.

  • Gretel: Nothing is given without something else being taken away.

  • Witch: Finders keepers.

  • Hansel: How'd you know?

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

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