Terry Pratchett wrote a lot of profound things over the years, but I think this quote from "Wintersmith" is some of his best work. This is after a funeral:
"Tiffany sat on a stump and cried a bit, because it needed to be done. Then she went and milked the goats, because someone had to do that too."
The Tiffany Aching series is one of my favorites.
Good thing Tiffany is not noble. Magrat is mostly being queen, but even she manages to be a witch now and then.
Loved Miss Aching, I was sad that she was going to be alone. Then I realized that the ONLY reason Nanny Ogg can be both is the low born state of her husbands. Any kind of nobility kinds witchery for the wife.
The entirety of life in two sentences. When you get right down to it, which he was very good at doing.
