So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.
Terry PratchettFor the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.
Terry PratchettIf you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.
Terry PratchettYou say that you people donโt burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but thatโs what true faith would mean, yโsee? Sacrificinโ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarinโ the truth of it, workinโ for it, breathinโ the soul of it. Thatโs religion. Anything else is just . . . is just beinโ nice. And a way of keepinโ in touch with the neighbors.
Terry Pratchett