Terry Pratchett

Mothers like her exist everywhere, and apparently nothing can be done about them. (p. 313)

There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another—language was just there to hide their thoughts. (p. 319)

The only way housework could be done in this place was with a shovel or, for preference, a match. (p. 147)

Nanny's mouth spread in an evil grin.

In the dim light she could see Granny's face which seemed to be suggesting that if Magrat was at her wit's end, it was a short stroll. (p. 64)

You can be as self-assertive as you like, I said, just so long as you do what you're told. (p. 20)

He lay back and smiled. It was never too late to have a good life. (p. 311)

If you wanted to get anywhere in this world—and she'd decided, right at the start, that she wanted to get as far as it was possible to go—you wore names lightly, and you took power anywhere you found it. She had buried three husbands, and at least two of them had already been dead. (p. 14)

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. (p. 321)

People are riddled by Doubt. It is the engine that drives them through their lives. It is the elastic band in the little model airplane of their soul, and they spend their time winding it up until it knots. Early morning is the worst time—there's that little moment of panic in case You have drifted away in the night and something else has moved in. This never happened to Granny Weatherwax. She went straight from fast asleep to instant operation on all six cylinders. She never needed to find herself because she always knew who was doing the looking. (p. 93)

Granny Weatherwax didn't like maps. She felt instinctively that they sold the landscape short. (p. 27)

'Tell me,' said Magrat, 'you said your mummy knows about the big bad wolf in the woods, didn't you?'