IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

"Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!" "If you can count to two, you can count to anything!" "If I can count to two, I can count to anything!" "And then the world is your mollusc!" "My mollusc! What's a mollusc?

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.