People see what they think is there. (MR)
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He was stocky, running to plump, and one of those people who bustle about being helpful in a mildly annoying way, taking over small jobs that you wouldn’t have minded doing for yourself. (MR)
...the place was one of those nowhere villages that existed only in order to avoid the embarrassment of having large empty places on the map. (MR)
... once you’ve told Nanny Ogg you’d more or less told everyone else. (W)
‘Goddesses can be a wee bit tricky.’ (W)
No one who met the Nac Mac Feegles ever forgot them, even if they tried hard. (W)
‘The first thing a hero must conquer is his fear, and when it comes to fightin’, the Nac Mac Feegle don’t know the meanin’ of the word.’
‘Aye, true enough,’ Rob grunted. ‘We dinnae ken the meanin’ o’ thousands o’ words.’ (W) If she was drowning and you threw her a rope she’d complain if it was the wrong colour ... (W)
Nanny Ogg changed the way people thought, even if it was only for a few minutes. She left people thinking they were slightly better people. They weren’t, but as Nanny said, it gave them something to live up to. (W)
‘Sooner or later every curse is a prayer.’ (W)
Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! (W)
‘Living this long’s not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.’ (W)
So that was poker, was it? Well, she hadn’t been too bad at it, once she’d worked out that it was all about making your face tell lies. For most of the time the cards were just something to do with your hands. (W)
If you put a lot of Feegles in a desert, within twenty minutes they’d find a bottle of something dreadful to drink. (W)
Witches are very keen on pickles, as a rule but the food they like best is free food. Yes, that’s the diet for your working witch: lots of food that someone else is paying for, and so much of it that there is enough to shove in your pockets for later. (W)
... the leader the witches did not have was Granny Weatherwax. (W)
Granny could shave the skin off a second. (W)
... no teacher likes to hear anyone else talk for very long. (W)
.... Boffo thinking - the rumours and the stories. Miss Treason had power because they thought she did. (W)
She took the view that if you were capable of learning, you’d work it out. There was no point in making it easy for people. (W)
‘... the universe has no time for life. By rights it shouldn’t exist. We don’t realize the odds.’ (DSS)
And the Sabalos family was rich - so rich, in fact, that it could afford the simple life. (DSS)
‘You know where you are with big-brained monsters, but gods are another matter.’ (DSS)
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