The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

by Terry Pratchett

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 who got the stories. If you had brown hair you were probably just a servant or a woodcutter or something.

And it didn’t stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into “true” and “false,” but instead could be things that people needed to know at the moment and things that they didn’t need to know at the moment.

“Them as can do has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”

I thought that was a strange thing for the kelda to say. . . . Tiffany’s Second Thoughts said: Hang on, was that a First Thought? And Tiffany thought: No, that was a Third Thought. I’m thinking about how I think about what I’m thinking. At least, I think so. Her Second Thoughts said: Let’s all calm down, please, because this is quite a small head.