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Description
Something is coming after Tiffany ... Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic -- not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this! What Tiffany doesn't know is that an insidious, disembodied... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Tiffany Aching: Young girl who lives on a dairy farm in Discworld. She is just learning what it means to be a witch.
- Granny Aching: Tiffany Aching's grandmother.
- Granny Weatherwax: The greatest of all the witches
- Rob Anybody: A Nac Mac Feegle, a tiny blue man with red hair.
Memorable Quotes
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“Granny Aching had never been at home with words. She collected silence like other people collected string. But she had a way of saying nothing that said it all.”
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“There was what Miss Level called "filling what's empty and emptying what's full."...<which> meant wandering around the local villages and the isolated farms and mostly doing medicine...Tiffany couldn't quite work out how Miss Level got paid..."Oh, it evens out," said Miss Level, as they walked on through the woods. "You do what you can. People give what they can, when they can."”
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“She opened the gate and walked up the path. You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it....Tiffany swallowed. She couldn't leave things like this. She just couldn't. "Mr. Weavall, I've got something I must tell you," she said. And she told him. She told him all of it, not just the good bits.”
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“Do you know what part of being a witch is? It's making the choices that have to be made. The hard choices. But you did . . . quite well. There's no shame in pity," said Granny Weatherwax.”
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“Granny <Weatherwax> nodded. "There's always a story," she said. "It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world."”
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“"Child, you've come here to learn what's true and what's not, but there's little I can teach you that you don't already know. You just don't know you know it, and you spend the rest of your life learning what's already in your bones. And that's the truth."”
Granny Weatherwax
First Sentence
It came crackling over the hills, like an invisible fog.
Table of Contents
Introduction: from Fairies and How to Avoid Them
1. Leaving
2. Twoshirts and Two Noses
3. A Single-minded Lady
4. The PLN
5. The Circle
6. The Hiver
7. The Matter of Brian
8. The Secret Land
9. Soul and Center
10. The Late Bloomer
11. Arthur
12. The Egress
13. The Witch Trials
14. Queen of the Bees
15. A Hat Full of Sky
Series
This is book 32 in the Discworld series.
Authors & Contributors
- Terry Pratchett (Author)
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