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”between March and July more than a hundred thousand human beings are in all certainly believed to have lost their lives within the walls of Florence. […] Before the plague struck who would have believed the city even numbered that many inhabitants.”

‘I don’t know what to do,’ he said.
‘No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,’ said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. ‘Been completely at a loss my whole life.’ He hesitated. ‘I think it’s called being human, or something.’

”Not every book had made it. Most of the important grimoires had got out but a seven-volume herbal had lost its index to the flames and many a trilogy was mourning for its lost volume. Quite a few books had scorch marks on their bindings; some had lost their covers, and trailed their stitching unpleasantly on the floor.”

dragging a bit atp, could be shorter

”Rincewind looked down at the snake, which was still trying to keep out of everyone’s way. It had a good thing going in the pit, and knew trouble when it saw it. It wasn’t about to cause any aggro for anyone. It stared right back up at Rincewind and shrugged, which is pretty clever for a reptile with no shoulders.”
love the snek

‘I’m still bothered about where the real hat is,’ said Spelter.
‘It’s in here,’ said Carding firmly, tapping the lid.
‘I mean the, um, real one.’
‘This is the real one. ’
‘I meant-’
‘This is the Archchancellor’s Hat,’ said Carding carefully. ‘You should know, you made it.’

‘What did it feel like?’
‘Have you ever been bitten by a viper?’
‘No.’
‘In that case you’ll understand exactly what it felt like. ’
‘Hmmm?’
‘It wasn’t like a snake bite at all.’

‘Quick, you must come with me,’ she said. ‘You’re in great danger!’
‘Why?’
‘Because I will kill you if you don’t.’
lol

‘He’s gone to bed,’ he said, ‘with a hot milk drink.’
‘Milk?’ said one of the wizards, with tired horror in his voice.
‘He’s too young for alcohol’, explained the bursar.
‘Oh, yes. Silly of me.’

oh hello death

“Preposterous,” he said angrily. “Quite preposterous. And there was no other woman. Stanley was devoted to his wife.”
oh so it is him

noooooo pat

“It’s what Nigel said at breakfast. If one knows something about someone else, do you think one ought to tell?”
“What an idiotic question! You can’t put a thing like that in general terms. What is it you want to tell, or don’t want to tell?”

not just kleptomania then but murder

”Miss Lemon’s Heel of Achilles had always been her imagination. She had none.”
lol love miss lemon

”if the offshore people, the zaaganaash, came in brotherhood, they would bring great knowledge. Combined with Anishinaabe ways of knowing, this would form a great new nation. But the second prophet sounded a warning: He said that what looks like the face of brotherhood might be the face of death. […] If the fish became poisoned and the water unfit to drink, we would know which face they wore.”

her knees?

“Well, yes, the idea did come into my head just for the moment. One of our Italian girls, perhaps. Foreigners are so much more precocious than English girls.”
“Don’t be so insular,” said Miss Bulstrode. “We’ve had plenty of English girls trying to make unsuitable assignations. It was a very natural thought to have occurred to you and probably the one that would have occurred to me.”

noooo it’s one of those important dignitaries and espionage ones

“Yes, we could get more that way. But it’s got to seed itself for next year. And what we leave behind is not wasted. You know, we’re not the only ones who like rice. Do you think the ducks would stop here if we took it all?” Our teachings tell us to never take more than half.

”If she lost—if Cattlson won—if the marines came and found a battlefield in ruin, crows picking at the rebel dead—”
oh no, this is really just the test

wait why was it cartone??

“A notebook. The yellowjackets say he’d kept it hidden and safe, even in prison.”
Baru’s heart skipped. “What did he write?”
“He’d shredded all the pages.” Tain Hu shook her head. “They were just pulp. Perhaps he was feverish. I wanted you to know, before we burned it too.”
😭😭

“A fairer hand!” Lyxaxu cried, in imitation of the chanting crowd. “A hand too busy to answer all my letters, though.”
lol

”The crowd gasped, hushed, roared like a wave rising and retreating.
And the duchess Tain Hu stepped into the circle
let’s gooo

“You were born to rule your home. I have to win the right to rule mine. I—I have to go to Falcrest.”
“You will find no power behind the mask.” Cold, rooted conviction in Tain Hu’s voice. “It will wear you. It will eat your face away. You would do more for your home if you tore it all down.”