All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!

Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

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This quote right here, which I read years before I read one of his novels literally and I say this with no poetic liberty, saved my life. I repeat it to myself constantly to this day.

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It’s the activist rallying cry.  I will protect my people.   No force of magic is stronger than my selfishness, stronger than my power to defend and defy.

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RIP Terry Pratchett. We need more writers like you.

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