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“The reason no one else saw [Death] was that the human brain is clever enough to edit sights too horrible for it to cope with.”

“Don’t you want to die nobly for a just cause?”
“I’d much rather live quietly for one.”

This book has me literally laughing out loud

“The road, Hwel felt, had to go somewhere.
This geographical fiction has been the death of many people. Roads don’t necessarily have to go anywhere, they just have to have somewhere to start.”

Pratchett’s humor is the best:

“It was a landscape of describable beauty.”

“Margarat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse, the reason being, you were alive to suffer it.”

A statement on not staying silent in the face of oppression if I’ve ever read one:

“This ‘not meddling’ thing is like taking a vow not to swim. You’ll absolutely never break it unless of course you happen to find yourself in the water?”
“Better than drowning,” Nanny said.

“What can’t speak, can’t lie.”

“Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn’t trust it. Often you couldn’t even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else- coincidence, maybe, or providence. You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you. Then just when you thought you had it nailed down it walked away with the hammer.”

Favorite quote of all time:

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages."