THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.

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

This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.