‘... maybe it’s wrong to base one’s future on a book of fairy stories.’ (ISWM)
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.... Boffo thinking - the rumours and the stories. Miss Treason had power because they thought she did. (W)
... the stories are out there and it’s up to you to leap on ‘em... (NOC)
'... it'd all gone myffic.'
'Mythic?' said schoolteacher Susan. 'Yep. With extra myff. And you can get into big trouble with myffic.' (TOT) 'Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.' (HFS)
Sometimes the weather has no sense of narrative convenience. (TT)
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)
'Never mind about the stories. They're just metaphors.'
'Interesting lies,' translated Bane. (CP) I wrote that in the days when I thought fantasy was all battles and kings. Now I'm inclined to think that the real concerns of fantasy ought to be about not having battles and doing without kings. (CP)
'Legends are prone to inflation.' (J)
One of the minor laws of the narrative universe is that any homely featured man who has, for some reason, to disguise himself as a woman will apparently become attractive to some otherwise perfectly sane men with. As the ancient scrolls say, hilarious results. (J)
'If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become part of someone elses story.’
‘And what if your story doesn’t work?’ ‘You keep changing it until you find one that does.' (AM) ‘Generally speaking,’ Lobsang pronounced, ‘reality having little sense of narrative, ancient sites are not heavy with swinging blades that decapitate, or rock panels that fold back to fire darts. It’s rather a shame isn’t it?’ (LE)
… only blonde and blue-eyed girls could get the prince and wear the glittering crown. It was built into the world. Even worse, it was built into your hair colouring. Redheads and brunettes sometimes got more than a walk-on part in the land of the story, but if all you had was a rather mousy shade of brown hair you were marked down to be a serving girl. (ISWM)
Sometimes if you wanted to go to the ball you had to be your own fairy godmother. (UA)
Er ... would you accept a wee bitty lie?’ Rob said.
‘No!’ ‘It’s interestin’. There’s dragons an’unicorns in it -’ ‘No. I want the truth!’ ‘Ach, it’s so boring.' (W) All tribal myths are true, for a given value of ‘true’. (LC)
'You’ve got to have trolls under bridges. Otherwise, what’s it all about?' (TB)
People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense. (W)
Change the story, even if you don’t mean to, and the story changes you. (W)
IT IS A MADE-UP STORY. VERY STRANGE. ALL ONE NEEDS DO IS TURN TO THE LAST PAGE AND THE ANSWER IS THERE. WHAT, THEREFORE, IS THE POINT OF DELIBERATEDLY NOT KNOWING? (Th)
HAS IT EVER STRUCK YOU THAT THE CONCEPT OF A WRITTEN NARRATIVE IS SOMEWHAT STRANGE? Said Death. (Th)
This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs. (MR)
... some girl who can’t tell the difference between a wolf and her grandmother must either be as dense as teak or come from an extremely ugly family. (WFM)
... some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead. (AM)
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