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The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.Terry Pratchett
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I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.Terry Pratchett
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And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.Terry Pratchett
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A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.Terry Pratchett
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To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories. And humans loved stories, because once you'd turned things into stories, you could change the stories.Terry Pratchett
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That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?Terry Pratchett
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Tiffany got up early and lit the fires. When her mother came down, she was scrubbing the kitchen floor, very hard.“ Er…aren’t you supposed to do that sort of thing by magic, dear?” said her mother, who’d never really got the hang of what witchcraft was all about.“ No, Mum, I’m supposed not to, ” said Tiffany, still scrubbing.“ But can’t you just wave your hand and make all the dirt fly away, then?”“ The trouble is getting the magic to understand what dirt is, ” said Tiffany, scrubbing hard at a stain. “I heard of a witch over in Escrow who got it wrong and ended up losing the entire floor and her sandals and nearly a toe.” Mrs. Aching backed away. “I thought you just had to wave your hands about, ” she mumbled nervously.“ That works, ” said Tiffany, “but only if you wave them about on the floor with a scrubbing brush.Terry Pratchett
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This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.Terry Pratchett
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Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.Terry Pratchett
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Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.Terry Pratchett
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Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!Terry Pratchett
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You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat.Terry Pratchett
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Gossiping's part of witchcraft, ' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.Terry Pratchett
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I dinna want to disappoint ye, but we's in a cellar right here, and it's full o' tatties.' After a while a voice said: 'So where izzit?'' Maybe it's got the day off?'' What's a demon need a day off for?'' Tae gae an' see its ol' mam an' dad, mebbe?'' Oh, aye? Demons have mams, do they?Terry Pratchett
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It's all about balance, do you see? Balance is the trick. Keep the balance and - " she stopped. "You've ridden on a seesaw? One end goes up, one end goes down. But the bit in the middle, that stays where it is. Upness and downness go right through it. Don't matter how high or low the ends go, it keeps the balance." She sniffed. "Magic is mostly movin' stuff around.Terry Pratchett