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“If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly,” said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.
“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
Hilta laughed like someone who had thought hard about Life and had seen the joke.
she was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.
it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path of the bicycle of history.
One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back on older, more traditional forms of banditry.
“I thought I might seek my fortune,” muttered Esk, “but I think perhaps girls don’t have fortunes to seek.
The lodgings were on the top floor next to the well-guarded premises of a respectable dealer in stolen property because, as Granny had heard, good fences make good neighbors.
gods were always demanding that their followers acted other than according to their true natures, and the human fallout this caused made plenty of work for witches.
Granny had some quite complex theories about
They both savored the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things.
“Million-to-one chances,” she said, “crop up nine times out of ten.”
