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I Like Terry Pratchett

This quote got me through college, no ifs and or buts:

[quote][Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you.[/quote]

--[i]I Shall Wear Mighnight[/i]

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lovingdead · 31-35, M

Awesome, have you read any Lev Grossman?

" I have a little theory that I'd like to air here, if I may. What is it that you think makes you magicians?" More silence. Fogg was well into rhetorical-question territory now anyway. He spoke more softly. "Is it because you are intelligent? Is it because you are brave and good? Is is because you're special?

Maybe. Who knows. But I'll tell you something: I think you're magicians because you're unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you."

Pseudonym · 26-30, M

That was a good one, but my favourites were always those following the life of Sam Vimes.

Pratchett was truly brilliant.

TiffAching · 26-30, F

@Pseudonym I've definitely used the Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Economic Justice quote to explain to people just how [i]expensive[/i] it is to be poor.

Straylight · 31-35, F

I loved the Tiffany Aching books.

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