Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.

Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.