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Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown
Only Granny Weatherwax really knew Granny Weatherwax.
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Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown
A shepherd's crown, not a royal one. A crown for someone who knew where she had come from. A crown for the lone light zigzagging through the night sky, hunting for a single lost lamb. A crown for the shepherd who was there to herd away the predators.
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Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown
Sometimes, Tiffany thought, I am so with being young.
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Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown
Then she wondered, not for the first time, about the differences between wizards and witches. The main difference, she thought, was that wizards used books and staffs to create spells, spells about big stuff, and they were men. While witches - always women - dealt with everyday stuff. stuff too, she reminded herself firmly. What could be bigger than births and deaths? but why shouldn't this boy want to be a witch? She had chosen to be a witch, so why couldn't he make the same choice? With a start, she realized it was her choice that counted here too. If she was going to be a sort of head witch, she should be able to decide this. She didn't have to ask any other witches. It could be her decision. Her responsibility. Perhaps a first step toward doing things differently?
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Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown
She taught me so much, she said to herself. She me as we were walking around after the sheep, and she told me all those things that I needed to know, and the first thing was to look after people. Of course, the other thing had been to look after the sheep.
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Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown
Our skills, you will find, could be our jailers.
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Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown
PRAY TELL ME, WHY WERE YOU CONTENT TO LIVE IN THIS TINY LITTLE COUNTRY WHEN, AS YOU KNOW, YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING AND ANYBODY IN THE WORLD? "I don't know about the world, not much; but in my part of the world I could make little miracles for ordinary people," Granny replied sharply. "And I never wanted the world-just a part of it, a small part that I could keep safe, that I could keep away from storms. Not the ones of the sky, you understand: there are other kinds.
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Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown
Why? Why not do things differently? Why should we do things how they have always been done before? And something inside her suddenly thrilled to the challenge.
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Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown
Don't get your knickers in a knot just yet, Tiff,' she said briskly. 'It won't solve anything an' will just make you walk odd.
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Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown
Suddenly there was a humming in the air, and the bees were there too. They flowed out of Granny Weatherwax's hive, circling Tiffany like a halo, crowning her, and swarm and girl stood on the threshold of the cottage and Tiffany reached out her arms and the bees settled along them, and welcomed her home.
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Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown
Being a witch is a man's job: that's why it needs women to do it.
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Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown
It was never easy being a witch. Oh, the broomstick was great, but to be a witch you needed to be sensible, so sensible that sometimes it hurt. You dealt with the reality-not what people wanted.
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