“Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well-known fact,” said Granny. “But I don’t… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“No point in imagining anything,” said Granny. “Things are bad enough as they are.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Do you know how wizards like to be buried?" "Yes!" "Well, how?" Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs. "Reluctantly. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat knew she had lost. You always lost against Granny Weatherwax, the only interest was in seeing exactly how.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But they must think we're daft, not noticing they'd left off the top slice," said Granny triumphantly. "Well, I told them a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She considered that the future was a frail enough thing at best, and if people looked at it hard they changed it.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Yes, but it's not good for anyone, all this taxing and killing folk. The new sergeant they've got is a keen man… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Granny Weatherwax was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I’ve got nothing but the greatest respect for Mrs. Gogol,” said Granny. “A fine woman. But talks a bit too much. If… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman,” it said. “I’ll be the judge of that,” warned Granny, and added, “Don’t call… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don't go in much for the structured approach to career progression.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The thing about elves is they've got no... begins with m," Granny snapped her fingers irritably. "Manners?" "Hah! Right, but no" "Muscle?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She never sent the castle to sleep”, said Granny, “that’s just an old wife’s tale. She just stirred up time a little.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“No. The old gods ain't big on 'sorry,'" said Granny, pacing up and down again. "They know it's just a word.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“.” Granny said, and cleared her bone-dry throat for a second try. “Esk?” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Granny’s implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and, on occasion, mountains.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Granny turned slowly in her seat to look at the audience. They were staring at the performance, their faces rapt. The words… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
