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💬 Esk busy being cringe in front of wizards (ahh the hubris of youth!) but Granny delivers as per usual

📚 191 - (the uni devel. a personality after absorb. magic)
"The trouble with borrowing another mind was, you always felt out of place when you got back to your own body, and Granny was the first person ever to read the mind of a building. Now she was feeling big and gritty and full of passages."

💬 Granny Weatherwax mention - you know the drill!

📚 Quote Page 188
"Granny had nothing against fortune-telling provided it was done badly by people with no talent for it. It was a different matter if people who ought to know better did it, though."

💬 'Granny Weatherwax, my belovedddd' I shriek gleefully at even just the mere mention of her hahaha 💖

📚 Quote Page 169
'Excuse me, my good woman, but would you be so kind as to move, please?'
Granny stepped aside, affronted by this display of downright politeness and particularly upset at being thought of as anyone's good woman, (...)

🛁 bath tub reading session

📚 Quote Page 150 (about Treatle)
"He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid, and maybe he had all the tact of an avalanche (...), but it would never have occurred to him that children were important enough to be unkind to."

🍔 lunch break read

💬 The Zoon's and "the office of tribal Liar" had me cracking up so much! Right after Granny Weatherwax's grumpy disposition this was my favorite thing to read about so far :D♥️
(I also like the, for lack of a better word, magic system? but the explanations, albeit entertaining enough, do tucker me out sometimes!)

🍔 lil lunch break read
💬 asked in an Insta poll which of my books to finish and Equal Rites won hehe les gooo

📚 Quote Page 110
"Granny, meanwhile, was two streets away. She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't."

📚 Quote Page 102

"Hilta laughed. Esk quite liked the sound. Granny never laughed, she merely let the corners of her mouth turn up, but Hilta laughed like someone who had thought hard about Life and had seen the joke."

quote from Page 92 - pigification situation
'I don't know why anyone would bother turning him into a pig when he was doing such a good job of it all by himself.'

📚 Quote Page 84

"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)