“Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was.”

— Terry Pratchett, book The Shepherd's Crown

Source: The Shepherd's Crown

Last update Sept. 29, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was." by Terry Pratchett?

Terry Pratchett photo

Terry Pratchett796

English author 1948–2015

Related quotes

“Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.”

Donna Tartt book The Little Friend

Source: The Little Friend

“The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“After All I've Done For you, you're lying. Wouldn't it be nice to tell the truth?”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

Shot Through The Heart
Music, Bon Jovi (1984)

“What is done in love is done well.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“What men have done can still be done
And shall be done to-day.”

The Song of Abu Klea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“What is well done is done soon enough.”

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer

First Week, First Day.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)

“I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Letter (3 July 1956); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker