“Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.”

“That’s what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there’s food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated, and worrying answers! Please give us a simple answer, so that we don’t have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don’t fit the way we want the world to be.”

“The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.”

“At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.”

“Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.”

“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”

“Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.”