Glen

“The remainder of the opera passed without anyone dying, except where the score required them to do so at some length.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

“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.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“So she was well proportioned. So her hair was all glossy. So she looked as if her lips had never been the wrong side of a second doughnut in her life. What was any of that to me?”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Hollow Boy

“Imagine water flowing underground. It flows through the same cracks year after year and it wears away at the stone. Millennia later you have a cave system. But what you don’t have is the water that originally created it. That’s long gone. Seeped away into the earth.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi