# Quote — Terry Pratchett, Mort

> The world's greatest lovers were undoubtedly Mellius and Gretelina, whose pure, passionate and soul-searing affair would have scorched the pages of History if they had not, because of some unexplained quirk of fate, been born two hundred years apart on different continents. However, the gods took pity on them, and turned her into an ironing board, and him into a small brass bollard.

- Author: [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md)
- Book: [Mort](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/mort.md)
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> "You like it?" he said to Mort, in pretty much the same tone of voice people used when they said to St George, "You killed a what?"

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> Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"

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> (That was a cinematic trick adapted for print. Death wasn't talking to the princess. He was actually in his study, talking to Mort. But it was quite effective, wasn't it? It's probably called a fast dissolve, or a crosscut/zoom. Or something. An industry where the senior technician is called a Best Boy might call it anything.)

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