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1 " Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained. "
― Terry Pratchett , Tiffany Aching 4-Book Collection: A Hat Full of Sky / The Wee Free Men / Wintersmith / I Shall Wear Midnight
2 " People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense. "
3 " Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight, "
4 " The only hat worth wearing was the one you made for yourself, not one you bought, not one you were given. Your own hat, for your own head. Your own future, not someone else’s. "
5 " I’m made up of the memories of my parents and grandparents, all my ancestors. They’re in the way I look, in the color of my hair. And I’m made up of everyone I’ve ever met who’s changed the way I think. So who is "
6 " Don’t cry,” said Miss Treason. “Living this long’s not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky. "
7 " Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There’d be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn’t know how not to turn people into them. And big pink balloons, too. "
8 " She’s doing well,” said the kelda, appearing out of nowhere. “She will bide fine. There will be nightmares as the darkness comes out. "
9 " Is she no’ happy?” “Well, yes, but…” There was a steely look in Jeannie’s eye. She had always been very respectful to Tiffany, but respect requires respect in its turn. "
10 " Oh, aye, it’s grand! Last week I saw Swan on a Hot Tin Lake, a reinterpretation of a traditional theme by one of our up-and-coming young performance artists; and the day after that, of course, there was a reworking of Die Flabbergast at the Opera House; and ye ken, they had a whole week of porcelain at the Royal Art Museum, with a free thimble of sherry. "