Nate

“Then she wound up the clock. Witches didn’t have much use for clocks, but she kept it for the tick…well, mainly for the tick. It made a place seem lived in. It had belonged to her mother, who’d wound it up every day. It hadn’t come as a surprise to her when her mother died, firstly because Esme Weatherwax was a witch and witches have an insight into the future and secondly because she was already pretty experienced in medicine and knew the signs. So she’d had a chance to prepare herself, and hadn’t cried at all until the day afterward, when the clock stopped right in the middle of the funeral lunch. She’d dropped a tray of ham rolls and then had to go and sit by herself in the privy for a while, so that no one would see.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“She's a queen. That's pretty high,' said Nanny Ogg. 'Almost as high as witches.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“Some people might say this is important.” “No. It’s just personal. Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies