A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)

by Terry Pratchett

(For example, they won’t steal from people who don’t have anything.)

Ships: Wooly things that eat grass and go baa. Easily confused with the other kind.

Tiffany accidentally heard them discussing it after she had gone to bed that night. It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass

to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

the Nac Mac Feegle were always looking for a fight, in a cheerful sort of way, and when they had no one to fight they fought one another, and if one was all by himself he’d kick his own nose just to keep in practice.

She was never likely to say out loud, “I wish that I could marry a handsome prince,” but knowing that if you did you’d probably open the door to find a stunned prince, a tied-up priest, and a Nac Mac Feegle grinning cheerfully and ready to act as best man definitely made you watch what you said.

Admittedly—and it took some admitting—he was a lot less of a twit than he had been. On the other hand, there had been such a lot of twit to begin with.

“What does a research witch do?” “Oh, it’s a very ancient craft. She tries to find new spells by learning how old ones were really done.

If you want to upset a witch, you don’t have to mess around with charms and spells—you just have to put her in a room with a picture that’s hung slightly crooked and watch her squirm.