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“I'm not a lady, I'm a witch.”
“Red sky at night, the city's alight.”
“Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.”
“A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.”
“You mean it's my destiny? she said at last.Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows?”
“You mean it's my destiny?" she said at last.Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows?”
“The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”
“Do you know how wizards like to be buried?""Yes!""Well, how?"Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs."Reluctantly.”
“It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is created by hundreds of small furry things treading very carefully in the...”
“I saved a man's life once,' said Granny. 'Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, ...”
“The living often dont appreciate how complicated the world looks when you are dead, because while death frees the mind from the straitjacket of three dimensions it also cuts it away from Time, whic...”
“High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat.”
“...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.”
“Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done an...”
“Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human mea...”
“But shes going to have a lot of problems."THATS WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT. SO IM TOLD. I WOULDNT KNOW, OF COURSE."What about reincarnation?"Death hesitated.YOU WOULDNT LIKE IT, he said. TAKE IT FROM M...”
“Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.”
“She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.”
“There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the...”
“It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking u...”
“Shed struck Esk once before the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough idea of what to expect from life.”
“He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spent ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the...”
