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Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1) QUOTES

Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1) QUOTES

1 " The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

2 " ...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

3 " 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 hope of finding dinner while avoiding being the main course. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

4 " Red sky at night, the city's alight. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

5 " 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, really. Most people'll get over things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest.'
She patted Esk's hand as nicely as possible. 'You're a bit young for this,' she said, 'but as you grow older you'll find most people don't set foot outside their own heads much. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

6 " You mean it's my destiny? she said at last.
Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows? "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

7 " A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

8 " 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 meat had sharp edges. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

9 " Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

10 " She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

11 " 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 blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

12 " 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 under their feet. That is because they've got the time-span all wrong. From stone's point of view the universe is hardly created and mountain ranges are bouncing up and down like organ-stops while continents zip backward and forward in general high spirits, crashing into each other from the sheer joy of momentum and getting their rocks off. It is going to be quite some time before stone notices its disfiguring skin disease and starts to scratch, which is just as well. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

13 " She’d 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. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

14 " 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 open air everyday. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

15 " I'm not a lady, I'm a witch. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

16 " Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

17 " They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

18 " Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

19 " It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

20 " Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them - when she thought about them at all – as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right. "

― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)