'A wizard's only a priest without a god and a damp handshake ...' (LL)
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Sometimes, if you pay real close attention to the pebbles you find out about the ocean. (LL)
'Being noticed is what a witch is all about.' (LL)
There was a long-drawn-out chord that by law must precede all folk music to give bystanders time to get away. (LL)
Going and fighting when you're a real person isn't like folksongs! In real life you die! In folksongs you just have to remember to keep one finger in your ear and how to get to the next chorus! In real life no-one goes whack-fol-a-diddle-di-do-sing-too-rah-li-ay! (LL)
'I just know where I am all the time,' said Granny.
'Well? I know where I am, too.' 'No, you don't. You just happen to be present. That's not the same.' (LL) News went around Lancre faster than turpentine through a sick donkey (LL)
The Librarian, an ape of simple but firmly-held tastes, considered an episode with custard pies, buckets of whitewash and especially that bit when someone takes someone else's hat off, fills it with something oozy, and replaces it on the deadpan head, while the orchestra plays 'WHAH ... whah ... whah ... whaaa ...' to be an absolutely essential part of any theatrical performance. (LL)
'You can't say "if this didn't happen then that would have happened" because you don't know everything that might have happened. You might think something'd be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible.' (LL)
‘I feel like a fish out of water.’
‘Well, the way I see it, it’s up to you to make your own water,’ said Nanny …. (LL) It was just that she had preferred him when he’d been a Fool. There’s something about a man who tinkles gently as he moves. (LL)
… Magrat had never been any good at acting. She’d always felt she wasn’t very good at being Magrat, if it came to that. (LL)
‘You can’t cross the same river twice, Archchancellor,’ he said.
Ridcully stared at him. ‘Why not? This is a bridge.’ (LL) Verence suddenly looked like a man who had been expecting a frontal attack and suddenly finds nasty things happening behind him. (LL)
Royalty, when they marry, either get very small things, like exquisitely-constructed clockwork eggs, or large bulky items, like duchesses. (LL)
‘Being alone isn’t the same as not having other people around,’ said Granny (LL)
‘Glamour. Elves are beautiful. They’ve got,’ she spat the word, ‘style. Beauty. Grace. That’s what matters. If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty cruel little bastards they are.’ (LL)
Granny Weatherwax seemed to generate a gyroscopic field – if you started out off-balance, she saw to it that you remained there. (LL)
The chieftain had been turned into a pumpkin although, in accordance with the rules of universal humour, he still had his hat on. (LL)
Other people would probably say: I wasn't myself. But Granny Weatherwax didn't have anyone else to be. (LL)
He had formed the unusual opinion that the job of a king is to make the kingdom a better place for everyone to live in. (LL)
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. (LL)
‘I hope they get counselling?’
‘We found out about that,’ said Bigmac’s voice. ‘They get a nice cup of tea and told to cheer up because it could be worse.’ ‘That’s all?’ ‘Well … there’s biscuits too.’ (JB) Bigmac and Wobbler weren’t in trouble, if only because there had been so much trouble just recently that there was, for a while, no more to get into. (JB)
People can start laughing for all sorts of reasons. But sometimes they laugh because, against all expectations, they’re still alive and have a mouth left to laugh with. (JB)
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