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Nation QUOTES

Nation QUOTES

1 " This was not the time to say “I don’t know.” The brothers had begging, hungry looks, like dogs waiting to be fed. They wanted an answer. It would be nice if it was the right answer, but if it couldn’t be, then any answer would do, because then we would stop being worried...and then his mind caught alight.

That’s what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there’s food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated, and worrying answers! Please give us a simple answer, so that we don’t have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don’t fit the way we want the world to be. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

2 " Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

3 " Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

4 " Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

5 " ...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe! "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

6 " Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

7 " I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

8 " They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

9 " It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

10 " Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

11 " What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir? "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

12 " They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . . "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

13 " Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

14 " Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

15 " Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

16 " Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

17 " The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

18 " That’s what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there’s food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated, and worrying answers! Please give us a simple answer, so that we don’t have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don’t fit the way we want the world to be. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

19 " When much is taken, something is returned. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation

20 " It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds. "

― Terry Pratchett , Nation