There is no such word as 'moonlight' but it would be nice if there was. (WFM)
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'There's ways and ways of not askin', if you get my meaning. People like to see a happy witch.' (WFM)
'Is this the wee bairn? Ach, what a noseful o' bogeys!' (WFM)
'There's nothing we cannae get in or oot of.'
'Except maybe pubs,' said Big Yan. 'Oh, aye,' said Rob Anybody cheerfully. 'Gettin' oot o' pubs sometimes causes us a cerrrtain amount o' difficulty, I'll grant ye that.' (WFM) 'Fear' was only one of thousands of words the pictsies probably didn't know the meaning of. (WFM)
You could read the Nac Mac Feegle like a book. And it would be a big, simple book with pictures of Spot the Dog and a Big Red Ball and one or two sentences on each page. (WFM)
The Nac Mac Feegle would fight and steal, certainly, but who wanted to fight the weak and steal from the poor? (WFM)
It was very unusual for Granny Aching to say more than a sentence. She used words as if they cost money. (WFM)
'First sight is when you can see what's really there, not what you heid tells you ought to be there. Ye saw Jenny, Ye saw the horseman, Ye saw them as real thingies second sight is dull sight, it's seeing only what you expect to see.' (WFM)
... it's the job of grandmothers to be happy when grandchildren give them things. (WFM)
You couldn't tell someone with half his face dyed dark blue and a sword as big as he was that you weren't really a witch. You couldn't disappoint someone like that. (WFM)
And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done ... (WFM)
'They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.' (WFM)
... a witch always listens to other people's conversations. (WFM)
And did the book have any adventures for people who had brown eyes and brown hair? No, no, no ... it was the blond people with blue eyes and the redheads with green eyes which got the stories. If you had brown hair you were probably just a servant or a woodcutter or something. Or a dairymaid. (WFM)
Witches don't like to be seen running. It looks unprofessional. (WFM)
'Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.' (CJ)
Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to it, to curb its wilder excesses by means of a kick, a prod in the small of the back or a pillow used as a bludgeon. (CJ)
... evil might come animal sharp in the night or greyly by day on a list ... (CJ)
'But now, apparently, we're in modern times.'
'That's what they say,' murmured Granny. 'Well, madam, I've never taken too much notice of them. Fifty years later they never seem so modern at all.' (CJ) 'Don't trust the cannibal just 'cos he's usin' a knife and fork.' (CJ)
'Time goes so quickly when you're dead.' (CJ)
Mobs become uncertain very quickly, in view of the absence of a central brain ... (CJ)
The role of the lower intestine in the efforts to build a better nation is one that is often neglected by historians. (CJ)
'... but that's what true faith would mean, y'see? Sacrificin' your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin' the truth of it, workin' for it, breathin' the soul of it. That's religion. Anything else is just ... is just bein' nice. And a way of keepin' in touch with the neighbours.' (CJ)
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