# Quote — Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

> Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy seraph of Al-Ybi was cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later the spell wore off. These days, the people of Al-Ybi are renowned for being unusually short and bad-tempered. (p. 6)

- Author: [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md)
- Book: [Witches Abroad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/witches-abroad.md)
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> Death put down his drink and stepped forward.

p. 325 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/witches-abroad/death-put-down.md)

> Granny stepped forward, her eyes two sapphires of bitterness. "I'm goin' to give you the hidin' our Mam never gave you, Lily Weatherwax. Not with magic, not with headology, not with a stick like our Dad had, aye, and he used a fair bit as I recall—but with skin. And not because you was the bad one. Not because you meddled with stories. Everyone has a path they got to tread. But because, and I wants you to understand this prop'ly, after you went I had to be the good one. You had all the fun. An' there's no way I can make you pay for that, Lily, but I'm surely goin' to give it a try..."

p. 337 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/witches-abroad/granny-stepped-forward.md)

> You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. (p. 305)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/witches-abroad/you-cant-go-around.md)