“The thing about elves is they've got no... begins with m," Granny snapped her fingers irritably.
"Manners?"
"Hah! Right, but no"
"Muscle? Mucus? Mystery?"
"No. No. No. Means like... seein' the other person's point of view."
Verence tried to see the world from a Granny Weatherwax perspective and suspicion dawned. "Empathy?"
"Right. None at all.”
― Lords and Ladies
"Manners?"
"Hah! Right, but no"
"Muscle? Mucus? Mystery?"
"No. No. No. Means like... seein' the other person's point of view."
Verence tried to see the world from a Granny Weatherwax perspective and suspicion dawned. "Empathy?"
"Right. None at all.”
― Lords and Ladies
“We rarely get the chance to see things anew. I remember a Latin translation that caused me to fail an exam at school because one of the words, translated for us at the bottom of the page and intended to help, was invalid. I read this to mean false, null, illegal. The opposite of valid. But it was meant to be understood as invalid as in a sick person. It torpedoed my entire translation. Instead of tending to the sick, priests were being accused of fraudulence and neglecting their duties. Even though it didn't match up with the grammar, or the story, I kept on returning to that word to check, and every time I saw it only as I had done already—invalid, null, void.”
― Sympathy
― Sympathy
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