“She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and a stickler for propriety and thought she knew how this sort...”
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<p><i>'Be careful what you wish for. You never know who might be listening.'</i></p> <p>There's no getting away from it. From whichever angle, Death is a horrible, inescapable business. But someone's got to do it. So if Death decides to take a well-earned moment to uncover the meaning of life and discover himself in the process, then there is going to be a void of specific dimensions that needs to be occupied, particularly so when there is trouble brewing in Discworld. There aren't too many who are qualified to fill Death's footsteps and it certainly doesn't help the imminent cataclysm that the one person poised between the mortal and the immortal is only sixteen years old...</p>
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Terry Pratchett
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“She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and a stickler for propriety and thought she knew how this sort...”
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“Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.”
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“The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a...”
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“She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.”
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“DEAFNESS DOESN'T PREVENT COMPOSERS HEARING THE MUSIC. IT PREVENTS THEM HEARING THE DISTRACTIONS.”
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“In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
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“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”
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