Lissibith

“Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“Ride close together. Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.”
― James Thurber, The 13 Clocks