"Wintersmith" by Terry Pratchett
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I just finished reading Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett. There is a reason he is my favorite author and there is a reason Graham Harvey used Terry Pratchett quotes as chapter headings in Contemporary Paganism.
Quotes from "Wintersmith"
"Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'." p122
"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? And possibly even: Is there anything worn under the kilt? Perhaps that was why odd, in a witch, was normal..." p153
"Witches aren't superstitious. We're what people are superstitious of." p178
"Anyone could be a witch at midnight, she'd thought, but you'd have to be really good to be a witch by noonlight. Good at being a witch anyway..." p191
"Hexperiment: to use magic just to see what happens." p223
"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." p268
"Iron enough to make a nail
Lime enough to paint a wall
Water enough to drown a dog
Sulphur enough to stop the fleas
Potash enough to wash a shirt
Gold enough to buy a bean
Silver enough to coat a pin
Lead enough to ballast a bird
Phosfor enough to light the town
Poison enough to kill a cow" p325
"Strength enough to build a home,
Time enough to hold a child,
Love enough to break a heart." p382
"When the noise had died down a bit the drummer beat a few times and the accordianist played a long drawn-out cord, the legal signal that Morris Dance is about to begin, and people who hang around after this have only got themselves to blame. "p 395
Quotes from "Wintersmith"
"Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'." p122
"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? And possibly even: Is there anything worn under the kilt? Perhaps that was why odd, in a witch, was normal..." p153
"Witches aren't superstitious. We're what people are superstitious of." p178
"Anyone could be a witch at midnight, she'd thought, but you'd have to be really good to be a witch by noonlight. Good at being a witch anyway..." p191
"Hexperiment: to use magic just to see what happens." p223
"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." p268
"Iron enough to make a nail
Lime enough to paint a wall
Water enough to drown a dog
Sulphur enough to stop the fleas
Potash enough to wash a shirt
Gold enough to buy a bean
Silver enough to coat a pin
Lead enough to ballast a bird
Phosfor enough to light the town
Poison enough to kill a cow" p325
"Strength enough to build a home,
Time enough to hold a child,
Love enough to break a heart." p382
"When the noise had died down a bit the drummer beat a few times and the accordianist played a long drawn-out cord, the legal signal that Morris Dance is about to begin, and people who hang around after this have only got themselves to blame. "p 395
