Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

Given enough coffee I could rule the world

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I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.

The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got to the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.

The significant owl hoots in the night.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.