- 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.
- 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: 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: But the thing about poison, is that out of everything in the big, bad world, nothing tastes as sweet.
- [last lines]
- Hansel: [as he rides away] You'll see my face again but you haven't told me where he's taking me.
- 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.
- [to Gretel and Hansel as she kicks them out of their house]
- Mother: Dig yourselves some pretty little graves, and dig one for your mother, too.