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8f772ac
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I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.
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terry-pratchett
witches
life
truth
inspirational
tiffany-aching
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Terry Pratchett |
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7f02aee
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At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.
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terry-pratchett
witches
life
truth
inspirational
tiffany-aching
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Terry Pratchett |
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0573163
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And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important.
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tiffany-aching
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Terry Pratchett |
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276e049
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"Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, "It shouldn't be like this." Her mentor replies, "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do." --
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tiffany-aching
situation
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Terry Pratchett |
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73ee9a5
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That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?
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witches
imagination
science
humor
perspicacity
tiffany-aching
geology
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Terry Pratchett |
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c329fae
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Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation. Yes, he was surrounded by sweets. But the moment he took any sweet at all, said his sugar-addled brain, that meant he was not taking all the rest. And there were so many sweets he'd never be able to eat them all. It was too much to cope with. The only solution was to burst into tears.
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humour
tiffany-aching
sweets
discworld
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Terry Pratchett |
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5ac59df
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Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn't divide easily into 'true' and 'false', but instead could be 'things that people needed to know at the moment' and 'things that they didn't need to know at the moment'.
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truth
pratchett
tiffany-aching
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Terry Pratchett |
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a35c5bb
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"Behind her, Preston grunted and said, "I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!" Tiffany, trying to get her shattered thoughts together, muttered, "My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow..." "Is that so?" said Preston cheerfully. "Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!"
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tiffany-aching
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Terry Pratchett |
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e119e11
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Then it came to her. She did deserve to die. And she was alone. She never would be. Not while her land was beneath her boots. land. The land of the Achings. She was Tiffany Aching. Not Granny Weatherwax, but a witch in her own right. A witch who knew exactly who she was and how she wanted to do things. Her way. And she had not failed, because she had barely begun...
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tiffany-aching
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Terry Pratchett |
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0997663
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(...) or there will be a reckoning!
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tiffany-aching
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Terry Pratchett |
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3fc97d1
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Sometimes, Tiffany thought, I am so with being young.
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youth
tiffany-aching
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Terry Pratchett |