‘…. There’s nothing wrong with cackling. In moderation.’ (WS)
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‘Everyone’s just people.’ (WS)
Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn’t trust it. Often you couldn’t even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered it turned out to be something else – coincidence, maybe, or providence. You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you. Then just when you thought you had it nailed down it walked away with the hammer. (WS)
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. (WS)
The Fool was vaguely aware that you could tell which direction the Hub lay by seeing which side of the trees the moss grew on. A quick inspection of the nearby trunks indicated that, in defiance of all normal geography, the Hub lay everywhere. (WS)
It’s not much using being a witch unless you look like one. (WS)
This cat, on the other hand, was its own animal. All cats give that impression, of course, but instead of the mindless animal self-absorption that passes for secret wisdom in the creatures, Greebo radiated genuine intelligence. He also radiated a smell that would have knocked over a wall and caused sinus trouble in a dead fox. (WS)
Demons were like genies and philosophy professors – if you didn’t word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers. (WS)
… Nanny believed that a bit of thrilling and pointless terror was an essential ingredient of the magic of childhood. (WS)
She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it. (WS)
‘… the thing with crowns is, it isn’t the putting them on that’s the problem, it’s the taking them off.’ (WS)
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