The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.

Do you know how wizards like to be buried?" "Yes!" "Well, how?" Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs. "Reluctantly.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

So much universe, and so little time.