If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
Terry PratchettMy name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman,โ it said. โIโll be the judge of that,โ warned Granny, and added, โDonโt call me woman.โ โVery well. My name is WxrtHltl-jwlpklz,โ said the demon smugly.
Terry PratchettPeople flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.
Terry PratchettYou are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.
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