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Granny Weatherwax wasn’t popular with anyone much – except when they needed her. When Death was standing by the cradle or the axe slipped in the woods and blood was soaking into the moss, you sent someone hurrying to the cold, gnarly little cottage in the clearing. When all hope was gone, you called for Granny Weatherwax, because she was the best.
-- Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith
#Terry Pratchett#discworld quotes#GNU Terry Pratchett#quotes#Wintersmith#Granny Weatherwax#Esmerelda Weatherwax
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Just going to dump my notes file of favorite quotes from The Fifth Elephant and Wintersmith here, it's an odd pairing but what the heck.
"Sometimes," Vetinari said, testily, "it really does seem to me that the culture of cynicism in the Watch is... is..."
"Insufficient?" said Vimes.
-- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
He enjoyed moments like these, the little bowl of time when the crime lay before him and he believed that the world was capable of being solved.
-- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
"I hate when you get too many clues, it makes it so damn hard to solve anything."
-- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
"Dere's guys in der road," said the troll. "Dey got halibuts."
Vimes looked out of the windows. There were half a dozen guards, and they did indeed have halberds.
-- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
"Yes," mumbled Vimes, experiencing vertigo and seasickness in one tight green package.
-- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
It wasn't just that his brain was writing checks that his body couldn't cash. It had gone beyond that. Now his feet were borrowing money that his legs hadn't got, and his back muscles were looking for loose change under the sofa cushions.
-- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
"Where should I fire it, Mister Vimes?"
"Good grief, not in here! This is an enclosed building!"
"Only up until I pull dis trigger, sir."
-- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
Vimes sat and stared. His head felt like some vast sea that had just been parted by a prophet. Where there should have been activity, there was just bare sand and the occasional floundering fish.
-- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
"This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do."
-- Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
(Tiffany Aching is thirteen years old here)
You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap. But you didn't because, as Miss Tick had once explained: a) it would make the world a better place for only a very short time; b) it would then make the world a slightly worse place; and c) you're not supposed to be as stupid as they are.
-- Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
I mean the range from comic quips to unusual yet perfect metaphors to breathtaking insights is just. How.
#terry pratchett#terry pratchett gnu#discworld#sam vimes#havelock vetinari#detritus#tiffany aching#the fifth elephant#wintersmith
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the tiffany quote where she's like "these are real fucking PEOPLE you are condescending to"
#hold on ill grab it. its tiffany night i cant stop thinking about her#hmmm it was in#wintersmith#i think?#discworld
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That was the thing about witches. They were, according to Granny Weatherwax, "people what looks up." She didn't explain. She seldom explained. She didn't mean people who looked at the sky; everyone did that. She probably meant that they looked up above the everyday chores and wondered, "What's all this about? How does it work? What should I do? What am I for?" And possibly even: "Is there anything worn under the kilt?"
Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
#granny weatherwax#esme weatherwax#tiffany aching#wintersmith#discworld#terry pratchett#witches#people#kilts#psychology#perspective#reflection#introspection#philosophy#explanations#people what looks up#the thing about witches
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Villain Song Showdown Preliminary Round #25
Top two will make it into the bracket
Barbie only has one more spot though.
Songs below the cut
After All - Villain: Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent
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Friends in Low Places - Villain: Cesare
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Ignorance is Bliss - Villain: Bowser
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Easy to Breathe - Villain: The grandpa
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Crown of Ice - Villain: Wintersmith
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Wintersmith - Villain: Wintersmith
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The Rat Song - Villain: The rats
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Wonderful Me - Villain: Lydia
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How Can I Refuse? Reprise - Villain: Preminger
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Slick - Villain: Matthew Patel
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#villain song showdown#preliminary round#ever after#ever after the musical#bigtop burger#wintersmith#steeleye span#nintendo#white knuckle scorin#barbie#barbie as the island princess#barbie and the diamond castle#barbie as the princess and the pauper#scott pilgrim vs the world#tournament poll#Youtube
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Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
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"Blessings be upon this house," said Granny, but in a voice that suggested that if blessings needed to be taken away, she could do that, too.
Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
#gnu terry pratchett#tiffany aching#wintersmith#granny weatherwax#old toph has Granny Weatherwax vibes
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"It was a witch. You could not mistake it. She -- it -- was probably a she, but some things are so horrible that worrying about how to address a letter to them is silly --"
gender goals👏
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surely there's nothing i've forgotten to put in this poll!
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‘I wasn’t going to describe it quite like that,’ said Nanny Ogg.
‘Yes, I suspects you weren’t!’ said Granny. ‘I suspects you was going to use Language!’
-- Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith
#Terry Pratchett#discworld quotes#GNU Terry Pratchett#quotes#Wintersmith#Granny Weatherwax#Esmerelda Weatherwax#Nanny Ogg#Gytha Ogg#language
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I was reading Witch Hat Atelier and decided to draw a sparkly witch from a completely different series. featuring Miss Tiffany Aching and her hat full of sky.
#discworld#tiffany aching#the wee free men#i shall wear midnight#a hat full of sky#wintersmith#the shepherd's crown#witch hat atelier#sorta#stylistic inspiration at least#my art
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"Mam says would you ladies like some breakfast?"
"Oh, no, we couldn't possibly take what little you have--" Annagramma began.
"Yes, please, we will be grateful," said Tiffany, louder and quicker. The man nodded, and shut the door.
"Oh, how could you say that?" said Annagramma as his footsteps creaked down. "These are poor people! I thought you would--"
"Shut up, will you?" snapped Tiffany. "Just shut up and wake up! These are real people! They're not some kind of, of, of idea! We will go down there and we will eat breakfast and we'll say how good it is and then we will thank them and they will thank us and we will go! And that will mean everyone has done the right thing by custom, and that will be what's important to them. Besides, they don't think they're poor, because everyone around here is poor! But they're not so poor that they can't afford to do the right things! That would be poor!"
Annagramma was staring at her with her mouth open.
"Be careful what you say next," said Tiffany, breathing heavily. "In fact, don't say anything."
Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
#tiffany aching#annagramma hawkin#wintersmith#discworld#terry pratchett#poor#poverty#charity#condescending#grateful#customs#the right thing#comparison#socioeconomic#dignity#shame#real people#breakfast#afford to do right#be careful#long quote
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#discworld#gnu terry pratchett#good omens#neil gaiman#good omens 2#meme#good omens meme#created by yours truly#tiffany aching#wintersmith#aziraphale#angel#crowley#demon#wee morag
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People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.
Wintersmith (by Terry Pratchett)
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"But do not become a strumpet like Mrs. Ogg," said Miss Treason.
"I'm not very musical," said Tiffany.
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Tiffany had looked up "strumpet" in the Unexpurgated Dictionary, and found it meant "a woman who is no better than she should be" and "a lady of easy virtue." This, she decided after some working out, meant that Mrs. Gytha Ogg, known as Nanny, was a very respectable person. She found virtue easy, for one thing. And if she was no better than she should be, then she was just as good as she ought to be.
Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
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