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"Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats, and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between. This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws! In my human mouth I have the pointy teeth of a wolf and the chisel teeth of a rabbit and the grinding teeth of a cow! Our blood is as salty as the sea we used to live in! When we’re frightened, the hair on our skin stands up, just like it did when we had fur. We are history! Everything we’ve ever been on the way to becoming us, we still are. Would you like the rest of the story?
[…]
I’m made up of the memories of my parents and grandparents, all my ancestors. They’re in the way I look, in the colour of my hair. And I’m made up of everyone I’ve ever met who’s changed the way I think."
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

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— 4 months ago with 48 notes
#terry pratchett  #discworld  #tiffany aching  #a hat full of sky  #books  #quotes 
"Um, women aren’t allowed in,” said Esk.
Granny stopped in the doorway. Her shoulders rose. She turned around very slowly.
“What did you say?” she said. “Did these old ears deceive me, and don’t say they did because they didn’t.”
“Sorry,” said Esk. “Force of habit.”
“I can see you’ve been getting ideas below your station,” said Granny coldly."
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

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— 10 months ago with 78 notes
#discworld  #GRANNY WEATHERWAX IS BETTER THAN YOU  #terry pratchett  #equal rites  #quotes 
whatdiscworldtaughtme:

469. You tell them a lie, and then when you don’t need it any more, you tell them another lie and tell them they’re progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they’ll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable.

whatdiscworldtaughtme:

469. You tell them a lie, and then when you don’t need it any more, you tell them another lie and tell them they’re progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they’ll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable.

— 11 months ago with 142 notes
#what discworld taught me  #Discworld  #guards! guards!  #terry pratchett 

In the hazel woods, there was a clearing of flowers from early spring to late autumn. There was meadowsweet and foxglove and old man’s trousers and Jack-jump-into-bed and ladies’ bonnets and three-times-Charlie and sage and southernwood and pink yarrow and ladies’ bedstraw and cowslips and primroses and two types of orchid.
It was where the old lady they had called the witch was buried. If you knew where to look, you could see what little was left of her cottage underneath all that greenery, and if you really knew where to look, you could see the place she had been buried. If you really and truly knew where to look, you could find the spot where Tiffany had buried the old lady’s cat, too; there was catnip growing on it.
Once upon a time, the rough music had come for the old woman and her cat, oh, yes, it had, and the people walking to its drumming had dragged her out into the snow and pulled down the rickety cottage and burned her books because they had pictures of stars in them.
[…]
No one talked about it. After all, what could you say? Rare flowers growing on the grave of the old woman and catnip growing where the Aching girl had buried the cat. It was a mystery, and maybe a judgement, although whose judgement it was, on whom, for what and why, was best not thought about, let alone discussed. Nevertheless, wonderful flowers growing over the remains of the possible witch—how could that happen?

In the hazel woods, there was a clearing of flowers from early spring to late autumn. There was meadowsweet and foxglove and old man’s trousers and Jack-jump-into-bed and ladies’ bonnets and three-times-Charlie and sage and southernwood and pink yarrow and ladies’ bedstraw and cowslips and primroses and two types of orchid.

It was where the old lady they had called the witch was buried. If you knew where to look, you could see what little was left of her cottage underneath all that greenery, and if you really knew where to look, you could see the place she had been buried. If you really and truly knew where to look, you could find the spot where Tiffany had buried the old lady’s cat, too; there was catnip growing on it.

Once upon a time, the rough music had come for the old woman and her cat, oh, yes, it had, and the people walking to its drumming had dragged her out into the snow and pulled down the rickety cottage and burned her books because they had pictures of stars in them.

[…]

No one talked about it. After all, what could you say? Rare flowers growing on the grave of the old woman and catnip growing where the Aching girl had buried the cat. It was a mystery, and maybe a judgement, although whose judgement it was, on whom, for what and why, was best not thought about, let alone discussed. Nevertheless, wonderful flowers growing over the remains of the possible witch—how could that happen?

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— 11 months ago with 274 notes
#discworld  #terry pratchett  #fanart  #tiffany aching: YOUR FAVES COULD NEVER  #tiffany aching hag of the hills a witch to her boots who made the sky her hat and the wind her cloak  #who has the hills in her bones who tells the land what it is  #who didn't have a single ounce of magical talent in her but fought tooth and nail to become a damn good witch  #who read the dictionary all the way through because no one told her not to  #who always does the job in front of her who has a duty who chose this path who became a witch to KNOW THINGS  #the sheep girl the big wee hag jiggit granny aching's granddaughter THE LAND UNDER WAVE  #FOREVER GIRL FOR LIFE  #this has been a tangent thank u 
"Aristocrats don’t notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right."
Terry Pratchett, Snuff

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— 11 months ago with 31 notes
#terry pratchett  #snuff  #quotes  #discworld 
"The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril."
Terry Pratchett, No to Age Banding Campaign (via sirterrypratchett)
— 11 months ago with 11 notes
#Terry Pratchett  #quotes  #age banding  #reading  #books 
"Colon had always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they’d get yelled at if they didn’t."
Same reason people do a lot of things, really. (Jingo, Terry Pratchett)

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— 1 year ago with 48 notes
#terry pratchett  #discworld  #jingo  #quotes 
"That was always the dream, wasn’t it? ‘I wish I’d known then what I know now’? But when you got older you found out that you now wasn’t you then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp."
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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— 1 year ago with 24 notes
#Terry Pratchett  #Night Watch  #Sam Vimes  #quotes  #discworld 
"And then, of course, there was himself. Just a skinny, unshaven collection of bad habits marinated in alcohol. And that was the Night Watch. Just the three of them. Once there had been dozens, hundreds. And now—just three."
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
— 1 year ago with 31 notes
#terry pratchett  #discworld  #guards! guards!  #quotes  #captain vimes  #samuel vimes  #sam vimes  #mister vimes  #my babies 
"Men like Corporal Nobbs can be found in every armed force. Although their grasp of the minutiae of the Regulations is usually encyclopedic, they take good care never to be promoted beyond, perhaps, corporal. He tended to speak out of the corner of his mouth. He smoked incessantly but the weird thing, Carrot noticed, was that any cigarette smoked by Nobby became a dog-end almost instantly but remained a dog-end indefinitely or until lodged behind his ear, which was a sort of nicotine Elephant’s Graveyard. On the rare occasions he took one out of his mouth he held it cupped in his hand.
He was a small, bandy-legged man, with a certain resemblance to a chimpanzee who never got invited to tea parties.
His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old."
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
— 1 year ago with 7 notes
#terry pratchett  #discworld  #guards! guards!  #quotes  #nobby nobbs  #corporal nobbs  #nobby  #can you tell how much I love these guys? 
"Esk, of course, had not been trained, and it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path of the bicycle of history."
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

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— 1 year ago with 34 notes
#terry pratchett  #discworld  #equal rites  #esk  #quotes  #books 
"Heartless it may be, but headless it ain’t. I’ve never claimed to be nice, just sensible"
Terry Pratchett, Granny Weatherwax in Lords and Ladies

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— 1 year ago with 36 notes
#Discworld  #terry pratchett  #lords and ladies  #quotes  #granny weatherwax 
"Go back,” said Granny. “You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don’t die can’t live. What don’t live can’t change. What don’t change can’t learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. You’re right. I’m older. You’ve lived longer than me but I’m older than you. And better’n you. And, madam, that ain’t hard."
Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
— 1 year ago with 88 notes
#terry pratchett  #discworld  #lords and ladies  #granny weatherwax  #quotes