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Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
5.0

Knocked out the audio book on my road trip today. Some of my favorite quotes:

“Repent!’” Nanny Ogg went on. “Repent? Me? Cheek! I can’t start repenting at my time of life. I’d never get any work done. Anyway,” she added, “I ain’t sorry for most of it.
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23)

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.” “It’s a lot more complicated than that—” “No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.” “Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes—” “But they starts with thinking about people as things…”
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)

He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles.
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld #23; Witches #6)