Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
15 quotes
"It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad"
"There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world."
"Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained."
"Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them."
"It's still magic even if you know how it's done."
"You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will?"
"Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, "It shouldn't be like this." Her mentor replies, "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do."
"Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them. And what you might need them for was to tell you, as a friend, that you were beginning to cackle."
"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
"Rain don't fall on a with if she doesn't want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be thankful.""Thankful for what?" said Tiffany."That I'll get dry later."
"You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility.You could say: I will deal with this.You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it."
"Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them."
"Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn't know how not to turn people into them. And big pink balloons, too."
"Here you are. Would you like some pickles?”“Pickles gives me the wind something awful.”“In that case—”“Oh, I wasn’t saying no,” Mistress Weatherwax said, taking two large pickled cucumbers."
"never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off"