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A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2) QUOTES

A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2) QUOTES

1 " Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

2 " It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

3 " There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

4 " Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

5 " It's an unfair world, Child. Be glad you have friends. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

6 " It's still magic even if you know how it's done. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

7 " You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will? "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

8 " You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility.
You could say: I will deal with this.
You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

9 " Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

10 " Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them. And what you might need them for was to tell you, as a friend, that you were beginning to cackle. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

11 " Learning 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. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

12 " Tiffany jumped when she saw a balloon sail up above the trees, catch the wind, and swoop away, but it turned out to be just a balloon and not a lump of excess Brian. She could tell this because it was followed by a long scream of rage mixed with a roar of complaint: “AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON!” which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

13 " Here you are. Would you like some pickles?”
“Pickles gives me the wind something awful.”
“In that case—”
“Oh, I wasn’t saying no,” Mistress Weatherwax said, taking two large pickled cucumbers. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

14 " Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

15 " This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

16 " never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

17 " Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

18 " If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

19 " It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

20 " It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you. "

― Terry Pratchett , A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)