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it is a wife’s job to stop her husband actually exploding with pride.
She’d grown up with seven hundred brothers and knew how they thought, which was often quite fast while being totally in the wrong direction.
“There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens, and what we do.”
Knowing things is magical, if other people don’t know them.”
“Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.
For an old woman Mistress Weatherwax could move quite fast. She strode over the moors as if distance was a personal insult.
Was there anything so amazing in the universe as boredom?
When I’m old, I shall wear midnight, she’d decided. But for now she’d had enough of darkness.
“Child, you’ve come here to learn what’s true and what’s not, but there’s little I can teach you that you don’t already know. You just don’t know you know it, and you’ll spend the rest of your life learning what’s already in your bones. And that’s the truth.”
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.
the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they’re like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.
Prstchett's explaination. Perfection !
There’s a lot of difference between writing for children and writing for adults, and it’s almost impossible to tell you what it is, but I know it when I’m doing it. You have more fun, and I have to say, it’s a little bit harder, especially if you do it right.
