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Wizards can put up with any amount of deprivation and discomfort, provided it is not happening to them.

Why were people so keen to look at a sunrise, a rainbow, a flash of lightning or a dark cloud and feel responsible for it?

And they were very aware that he knew exactly how to make a short word like ‘suffer ’ turn into a very long experience.

Thus proving that dreams that come true are not always the right dreams.

We watch the dead to see that no harm comes to them out of the darkness. Although, as Nanny said, maybe it’s the living you have to watch – for despite what most people thought, the dead don’t hurt anybody.

Granny’s soap was like her advice: strong and sharp and it stung a bit at the time, but it worked.

‘My father is not a stick-in-the-mud; he is the mud!’

But the reward for lots of work seemed to be lots more.

Being dead didn’t mean you couldn’t get angry, oh no.

There will be a reckoning . . .
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Space he thought. That was the trouble. It was never like this on worlds with everlastingly cloudy skies. But once humans saw all that space, their brains expanded to try and fill it up.

The witches seemed to come alive, at the breaking of the spell that had never actually been there in the first place.

It was taken for granted by both women that old people did not include them. A witch aged ninety-seven would not have included herself. Old people happened to other people.

It's hard to contemplate, in the grey hours of the night, that probably the only reason people would come to your funeral would be to make sure you're dead.

People learned to respect storm clouds, too. They refreshed the ground. You needed them. But they weren't nice.

Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weathervax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.

Even if someone was your worst enemy, you invited them in and gave them tea and biscuits. In fact, the worser your enemy, the better the crockery you got out and the higher the quality of the biscuits. You might wish black hell on 'em later, but while they were under your roof you'd feed 'em till they choked.

A witch who is bored might do anything.

The world is changing and it needs its shepherds and sometimes its butchers.

The thing about being embarrassed is that sooner or later you aren’t, but you remember that you were.

We work as a team or we become separate corpses.

Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.

Treasure a night’s rest, I always say. Take a nap whenever you can.

You have to … chill, get laid back before you are laid-back and laid down for ever.

And yesterday you never thought about it and after today you don’t know what you would do without it. That was what the technology was doing. It was your slave but, in a sense, it might be the other way round.

They had explicitly and repeatedly told me they would never, ever do that. But maybe they would.

“Motivation isn’t necessary,” she said. “You just have to do it.”

Kilgariff, Karen. Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered (p. 182). Tom Doherty Associates. Kindle Edition.

No matter how deep into shit you get, there will always be someone who is willing to help you, if you just reach out.

Kilgariff, Karen. Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered (p. 118). Tom Doherty Associates. Kindle Edition.

Then when a sweet baby angel starts to learn things about violence and cruelty, they become a Murderino.

Kilgariff, Karen. Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered (p. 65). Tom Doherty Associates. Kindle Edition.

'...I am ordering you to make miracles by all means necessary,’ said Vetinari. ‘Do I make my point? I am sure I could make it somewhat pointier.’