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21 " There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop? "
― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)
22 " 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 most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest. "
23 " For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own. "
24 " Hilta laughed like someone who had thought hard about Life and had seen the joke. "
25 " Granny Weatherwax was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed. "
26 " At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn’t worked. It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage—even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity. "
27 " They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair. "
28 " She gazed out across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork and reasoned like this: writing was only the words that people said, squeezed between layers of paper until they were fossilized (fossils were well known on the Discworld, great spiraled shells and badly constructed creatures that were left over from the time when the Creator hadn't really decided what He wanted to make and was, as it were, just idly messing around with the Pleistocene). And the words people said were just shadow of real things. But some things were too big to be really trapped in words, and even the words were too powerful to be completely tamed by writing. "
29 " Goats did have names for themselves, she well knew: there was 'goat who is my kid,' 'goat who is my mother,' 'goat who is herd leader,' and half a dozen other names not least of which was 'goat who is this goat. "
30 " Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it. "
31 " The storm walked around the hills on legs of lightning, shouting and grumbling. "
32 " If you invited a hedge wizard to a party, he would spend half the evening talking to your potted plant. And he would spend the other half listening. "
33 " They both savored the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things. "
34 " She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite bring it to mind. "
35 " For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting such store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. "
36 " Lots of things have never happened before. We’re only born once. "
37 " The light was misty and actinic, the sort of light to make Steven Spielberg reach for his copyright lawyer. "
38 " as self-centered as a tornado, "
39 " She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you. "
40 " She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't. "