Magic is good, magic is good, magic is good. Witchcraft is bad, witchcraft is bad, witch is –
-- Madame Weatherberry (Prologue)

Importance: Madame Weatherberry is talking to King Champion about the reason he should support her effort to open the magic academy. This is actually a lie and the reader later discovers that the person with magical abilities has the same choice to be good or bad that every other person has. This is one of many examples of the author's use of repetition as a literary device, and the majority of them – like this one – are humorous.

Like all the young women in her kingdom, Brystal was expected to resemble a living doll anytime she left her home – and Brystal hated dolls. In fact, anything that remotely influenced girls to want motherhood or marriage was instantly added to her list of things to resent – and given the Southern Kingdom's stubborn views of women, Brystal...
-- Narrator (chapter 1)