Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

Quick, someone's coming! Look real!

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

It's a sword. said the Hogfather. They're not meant to be safe.

I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest.

There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?