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"I've heard of male witches,' said Esk meekly.
'Warlocks!'
'I think so.'
'I mean there's no male witches, only silly men,' said Granny hotly. (...)

✍️📝Borrowing aftercare, telling Esk about her ~destiny~
mi ma mo just been a lot of exposition and explaining these past reading sessions (something you need in a fantasy world and still terribly funny, but not my preference, so I've been going at snail's pace)

finished: pages 65-79 - Esk learns 'Borrowing' (from an eagle)

Page 77
"Granny was no stranger to the uses of power, but she knew she relied on gentle pressure subtly to steer the tide of things. She didn't put it like that, of course - she would have said that there was always a lever if you knew where to look."

Granny Weatherwax, my beloved 🥰

Page 59
'Do you think I used magic?' (...)
'I think you just know a lot about bees"
Granny grinned. 'Exactly correct. That's one form of magic, of course."

Page 62
'So people see you coming in the hat and the cloak and they know you're a witch and that's why your magic works?' said Esk.
'That's right', said Granny. 'It's called headology'.

While in the bathtub, sprayed the book with water. It's all wavy now )))))))):

Page 53
"Goats did have names for themselves, she well knew: there was 'goat who is my kid', 'goat who is my mother', 'goat who is herd leader', and half a dozen other names, not least of which was 'goat who is this goat'.
(...) And Granny had always felt that calling all this names like Buttercup was an insult to a noble animal.

couple pages during lunch breakkkkk (:

Page 33 - (:<
"Front doors in Bad Ass were only used by brides and corpses, and Granny had always avoided becoming either."

Squeezing in a round of one of my card games and some pages during lunch break :D

Page 24
'Do you know how wizards like to be buried?'
'Yes!'
'Well, how?'
Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs.
'Reluctantly.'
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"Time passed, which, basically, is its job."