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"Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular."
"Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe."
"In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute."
"Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese."
"...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault)."
"Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted. The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oot feets?"
"I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either."
"She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it."
"Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar."
"Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in."
"My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it."
"Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones."
"All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private."
"Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!"
"Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do."
"ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS."
"When you break rules, break 'em good and hard"
"Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast."
"Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance."
"While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well."