Status Updates From Lords and Ladies (Discworld...

“‘The thing about elves is they’ve got no- begins with m,’ Granny snapped the fingers irritably. ‘Manners?’ ‘Hah! Right, but no.’ ‘Muscle? Mucus? Mystery?’ ‘No…Means like…seein’ the other person’s point of view.’ Verence tried to see the world from a Granny Weatherwax perspective… ‘Empathy?’ ‘Right. None at all.’”

"More of a problem, though, was that people didn't seem to remember what it was like with the elves around...It got so people didn't even dare talk openly about the bastards. You said: The Shining Ones. You said: The Fair Folk. And you spat, and touched iron. But generations later, you forgot...why you used those names for them, and you remembered only that they were beautiful."

“‘Ain’t you scared?’ she said. Granny cracked her knuckles. ‘No. But I hope it is.’ ‘Ooo, it’s true what they say. You’re a prideful one, Esmeralda Weatherwax.’ ‘Who says that?’ ‘Well, you did. Just now.’ ‘I wasn’t feeling well.’ Other people would probably say: I wasn’t myself. But Granny Weatherwax didn’t have anyone else to be.”

“‘All the bracken and weeds is trampled around the stones. I reckon someone’s been dancing.’ Nanny Off gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who’s just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm. ‘They never’”

“Is it the witching?,’ he said. ‘You don’t have to give that up entirely…And you can be a witch queen, although I think that means you have to wear rather revealing clothes and keep cats and give people poisoned apples. I read that somewhere.’”