equal rites quotes

Granny knew all about bad fortune telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.
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...although his body had been around quite a lot his mind had never gone further than the inside of his head.
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[...] she [Esk] was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so they don't apply to you.
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For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to
(a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
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the nasty little sound of a sword being unsheathed right behind one at just the point when one thought one had disposed of one's enemies
[...]
It was that kind of laugh.
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He had that kind of real deep tan that rich people spend ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when all you really need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open every day.
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[...] a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.
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Still, it was a relief to get away from that macabre sight. Gander
considered that gnolls didn't look any better inside than out. He hated
their guts.
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“That new lad. You know, the one they say has got a whole head full of brains?”
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If broomsticks were cars, this one would be a split-window Morris Minor.
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'You're wizards!' she [Esk] screamed. 'Bloody well wizz!'
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They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things.
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Cutangle stood with legs planted wide apart, arms akimbo and stomach giving an expression of a beginners' ski slope, the whole of him therefore adopting a pose usually associated with Henry VIII but with an option on Henry IX and X as well.
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