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Terry Pratchett - The Wee Free Men

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The Wee Free Men

Terry Pratchett

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Elisheva
12 ноября 2015
В народе говорится: "Сердцем чует", но ведьмы учатся чуять и другими частями тела. Что могут вам порассказать ваши почки - вы удивитесь.
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Anshe
27 сентября 2015
— Зоология, да? Это понятие растяжимое, не так ли?
— На самом деле нет, — сказала Тиффани. — Покровительство — понятие растяжимое. А зоология на самом деле — достаточно короткое.
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Anshe
27 сентября 2015
Именно так это работало. Никакого колдовства вообще. Но в то же время это было чудо. И это не переставало быть чудом, если вы знали, как это было сделано…
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essere
23 апреля 2015
Которые могут сделать что-то, должны делать для тех, кто не может. И кому-то надо говорить за тех, у кого нету голоса.
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Susanna_7
4 октября 2014
Что люди думают сделать, и что на самом деле сделано - это разница.
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Pallada
1 июня 2014
Сказки не были похожи на правду. Но госпожа Снапперли умерла из-за сказок.
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Tas
8 февраля 2013
Люди, которые говорят вещи, вроде «все ваши сны сбудутся», должны попробовать пожить в одном хотя бы пять минут».
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Mapleleaf
3 февраля 2013
Glint, glisten, glitter, gleam…
Tiffany thought there should be a word meaning ‘a word that sounds like the noise a thing would make if that thing made a noise even though, actually, it doesn’t, but would if it did’.
Glint, for example. If light made a noise as it reflected off a distant window, it’d go ‘glint!’ And the light of tinsel, all those little glints chiming together, would make a noise like ‘glitterglitter’. ‘Gleam’ was a clean, smooth noise from a surface that intended to shine all day. And ‘glisten’ was the soft, almost greasy sound of something rich and oily.
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Mapleleaf
14 декабря 2012
‘Yes, but stealing the sheep and the eggs, there was no need for that,’ she said sternly.
‘But they wasnae nailed doon, mistress,’ said Rob Anybody, as if that was an excuse.
‘You can’t nail down an egg!’ snapped Tiffany.
‘Ach, well, you’d have the kennin’ of wise stuff like that, mistress,’ said Rob Anybody.
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Mapleleaf
12 декабря 2012
She heard boots in the yard as some of the men came down from the shearing sheds, but got on with looking under beds and in cupboards, even ones so high that a toddler couldn’t possibly reach them, and then looked again under beds that she’d already looked under, because it was that kind of search. It was the kind of search where you go and look in the attic, even though the door is always locked.
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Mapleleaf
12 декабря 2012
She tried to pretend she hadn’t thought that, but she was treacherously good at spotting when she was lying. That’s the trouble with a brain: it thinks more than you sometimes want it to.
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Mapleleaf
10 декабря 2012
The skylarks stopped singing and, while she hadn’t really noticed their song, their silence was a shock. Nothing’s louder than the end of a song that’s always been there.
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Mapleleaf
8 декабря 2012
‘Do you want to be turned into a frog?’
‘Well, now, let me see…’ said the toad sarcastically. ‘Better skin, better legs, likelihood of being kissed by a princess one hundred per cent improved… why, yes. Whenever you’re ready, madam.’
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Mapleleaf
8 декабря 2012
It had started with The Goode Childe’s Booke of Faerie Tales. Actually, it had probably started with a lot of things, but the stories most of all.
Her mother had read them to her when she was little, and then she’d read them to herself. And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch.
And Tiffany had thought: Where’s the evidence?
The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you had no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch.
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Mapleleaf
8 декабря 2012
Speak up for those who don’t have voices
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Mapleleaf
5 декабря 2012
That was how it worked. No magic at all. But that time it had been magic. And it didn’t stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.
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Mapleleaf
4 декабря 2012
What they did was sell invisible things. And after they’d sold what they had, they still had it. They sold what everyone needed but often didn’t want. They sold the key to the universe to people who didn’t even know it was locked.
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Mapleleaf
4 декабря 2012
‘Hello, little girl,’ he said, which was only his first big mistake. ‘I’m sure you want to know all about hedgehogs, eh?’
‘I did this one last summer,’ said Tiffany.
The man looked closer, and his grin faded. ‘Oh, yes,’ he said. ‘I remember. You asked all those… little questions.’
‘I would like a question answered today,’ said Tiffany.
‘Provided it’s not the one about how you get baby hedgehogs,’ said the man.
‘No,’ said Tiffany, patiently. ‘It’s about zoology.’
‘Zoology, eh? That’s a big word, isn’t it.’
‘No, actually it isn’t,’ said Tiffany. ‘Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.’
The teacher’s eyes narrowed further. Children like Tiffany were bad news.
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Mapleleaf
3 декабря 2012
Granny Aching had been an expert on sheep, even though she called them ‘just bags of bones, eyeballs and teeth, lookin’ for new ways to die’. Other shepherds would walk miles to get her to come and cure their beasts of ailments. They said she had the Touch, although she just said that the best medicine for sheep or man was a dose of turpentine, a good cussin’ and a kick. Bits of paper with Granny’s own recipes for sheep cures stuck out all over the book. Mostly they involved turpentine, but some included cussin’
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Mapleleaf
3 декабря 2012
They weren’t particularly funny after about the third time, but she’d miss it if he didn’t say at least one of them every week. They didn’t have to be funny, they were father jokes.
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