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“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“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.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“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.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“And what do you really do?" asked Tiffany.

The thin witch hesitated 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.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“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?”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

“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.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“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��.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Then it came to her. She did not deserve to die. And she was not alone. She never would be. Not while her land was beneath her boots. Her 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...”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“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!”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“Sometimes, Tiffany thought, I am so fed up with being young.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“To Tiffany's surprise, Nanny Ogg was weeping gently. Nanny took another swig from her flagon and wiped her eyes. 'Cryin' helps sometimes,' she said. 'No shame in tears for them as you've loved. Sometimes I remember one of my husbands and shed a tear or two. The memories're there to be treasured, and it's no good to get morbid-like about it.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Too many books in one place, who knew what they could do? Miss Tick told her one day: 'Knowledge is power, power is energy, energy is matter, matter is mass, and mass changes time and space.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“(...) or there will be a reckoning!”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Sometimes the moon is light and sometimes it's in shadow, but you should always remember it's the same moon.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“And you know what? Books live. The pages remember!”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“But the banging of the door as punctuation caused Tiffany to think and she thought suddenly, I want to do it my way. Not how the other witches think it should be done. I can't be Granny Weatherwax for them. I can only be me, Tiffany Aching.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“When Geoffrey was away, the goat often took himself off. He had soon got the goats at Granny’s cottage doing his bidding, and Nanny Ogg said once that she had seen what she called ‘that devil goat�� sitting in the middle of a circle of feral goats up in the hills. She named him ‘The Mince of Darkness�� because of his small and twinkling hooves, and added, ‘Not that I don’t like him, stinky as he is. I’ve always been one for the horns, as you might say. Goats is clever. Sheep ain’t. No offence, my dear.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“Then there is the dress. It has been owned by many sisters as well and has been taken up, taken out, taken down, and taken in by her mother so many times that it really ought to have been taken away.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“I get up Aching, and I go to bed Aching,' she whispered to herself, smiling. One of her father's jokes, and she had rolled her eyes when hearing it again and again as a child, but now its warmth curler over her body.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“Hexen altern innerlich. Man tat, was getan werden musste, auch wenn es einem den Magen umdrehte. Man sah was niemand je sehen sollte. Und was man tat, weil es getan werden musste, tat man meistens allein und oft im Dunkeln.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“Козата е беля работа ако човек е свикнал с овце, защото козата е овца с мозък. ... тя знаеше, че спрямо козите трябва да използваш пъсихология. Ако вземеш да се превъзбудиш и да се развикаш, и да удариш козата (при което да си удариш ръката, защото то е все едно да зашлевиш чувал със закачалки), то те ще са спечелили, и ще ти се надсмиват на кози език, който и без друго се състои почти само от насмешки.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“Tiffany şok olmuştu. “Nasıl bu kadar zalim olabilirsin?��
“İnsanlar, eşyaları havada oynattığını gördüğünde ona saygı duyacaklar. Ve saygı, bir cadının besini ve suyudur. Saygı olmadan hiçbir şeysin. Bizim Bayan Düzgün pek fazla saygı görmüyordu.��
Bu doğruydu. İnsanlar Bayan Düzgün’e saygı duymuyordu. Üzerinde düşünmeden ondan hoşlanıyorlardı, o kadar. Bayan Havamumu haklıydı ama Tiffany haklı olmamasını diliyordu.
“Bayan Kene ve sen, beni neden ona gönderdiniz o zaman?�� dedi.
“Çünkü Bayan Düzgün insanlardan hoşlanıyor,�� dedi cadı, uzun adımlarla Tiffany’nin önünden yürürken. “Onları önemsiyor. Hatta aptal, kötü ve salyalar akıtan insanları, bebekleri ishal olmuş akılsız anneleri, beceriksiz ve aptalları, ona bir tür hizmetkar gibi davranan aptalları. İşte buna büyü derim ben; bütün bunları görmek, bütün bunlarla uğraşmak ama yine de devam etmek; ölmek üzere olan zavallı yaşlı bir adamın başında bütün gece oturmak, acılarını becerebildiğince gidermek, dehşetlerini yatıştırmak, onları güvenle yollarına göndermek... Onları temizlemek, yatırmak, cenaze için üstlerine çekidüzen vermek, yaslı dulun yatak örtülerini yıkamasına yardım etmek -ki bunun korkak yüreklilere uygun bir iş olmadığını söyleyebilirim sana- ve bir sonraki gece de uyumayıp cenazeden önce tabuta göz kulak olmak ve sonra eve gitmek; beş dakika oturduktan sonra, ilk çocuğunun doğumu sırasında karısı güçlük çektiği ve ebe aklını yitirmek üzere olduğu için öfkelenmiş bir adamın bağıra çağıra gelip kapıyı yumruklaması, kalkıp çantanı almak ve yine dışarı çıkmak... Bunları her birimiz kendi yöntemimizle yaparız ve açıkçası, o benden daha iyi yapıyor. Cadılığın kökü, yüreği, ruhu ve özü budur. Ruhu ve özü!�� Bayan Havamumu yumruğunu avucuna vurdu ve sözcükler ağzından kurşun gibi çıktı. “Ruhu... ve... özü!”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky