Equal Rites Quotes

“There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“She was almost there. She could feel the weight of herself, the ponderousness of her body, the distant memories of the dawn of time when rock was molten and free. For the first time in her life she knew what it was like to have balconies.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“The living often don’t appreciate how complicated the world looks when you are dead, because while death frees the mind from the straitjacket of three dimensions it also cuts it away from Time, which is only another dimension. So while the cat that rubbed up against his invisible legs was undoubtedly the same cat that he had seen a few minutes before, it was also quite clearly a tiny kitten and a fat, half-blind old moggy and every stage in between. All at once. Since it had started off small it looked like a white, catshaped carrot, a description that will have to do until people invent proper four-dimensional adjectives.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“It will all become clear to you when you grow up,’ he said, 'It’s an amusing idea, of course, a nice play on words. A female wizard! You might as well invent a male witch!’

'Warlocks,’ said Esk.

'Pardon me?’

'My granny says men can’t be witches,’ said Esk. 'She says if men tried to be witches they’d be wizards.’

'She sounds a very wise woman,’ said Treatle.

'She says women should stick to what they’re good at,’ Esk went on.

'Very sensible of her.’

'She says if women were as good as men they’d be a lot better.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Жизненно важный ингредиент успеха - это не знать, что задуманное вами невозможно выполнить.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Esk stood on the deck of the barge and looked around. The sky was bluer than a biscuit barrel, fitting neatly over a broad valley through which the river ran as sluggishly as a planning inquiry.
Behind her the Ramtops still acted as a hitching rail for clouds, but they no longer dominated as they had done for as long as Esk had known them. Distance had eroded them.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“The fact was the magic only really worked when she wasn't thinking about it. Her mind seemed to get in the way.”
― Terry Pratchett (Author)

“You can’t cross the same river twice.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites