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"But Lancelot never believed he was good or nice. Under the grotesque, magnificent shell with a face like Quasimodo's, there was shame and self-loathing which had been planted there when he was tiny, by something which it is now too late to trace.
It is so fatally easy to make young children believe they are horrible."

"If you are feeling desperate, a badger is a good thing to be."

"Perhaps it's a map."

"Because we're in the heart of the Dark Wood now, and we've found the Dark Wood in our hearts, and...for tonight...we are something...terrible."

"How come a cat knows a word like that?" asked the girl.
"Everyone's got to know *something*" said Maurice

Ok TH maybe less of the "feudalism is actually good when you have good masters" please

Oh no, the ants

"Kids know a mind like yours even if they don't know the right words for it"

Haha, get bent, Teatime

"And now he walked through dark seas."

Jingle bells, jingle bells, I'm back on my shit
Advent's here, the time is clear, Hogfather's in my mitts
Jingle bells, jingle bells, soon these hogs will fly
The time I need, for this re-read, each year until I die

God

Lord, this book

Oh Balan

Oh Granny.

The classic Terry Pratchett Ambush Pun in what might be its most perfect form

Holy shit, Eleanor

Shit shit shit

Oh shit

"It's not the work hands were made for", holy hell

Eleanor, what is going on

Run

Oh no, that dragon is too sad

"Then I died, and now I am a snake."

The fuck is your goal, Gariath

Distressing

Oankali naming conventions are tiny little windows into their world and I very very like it