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Nation

Nation
Terry Pratchett

Nation is a novel by Terry Pratchett, published in the UK on 11 September 2008. It was the first non-Discworld Pratchett novel since Johnny and the Bomb . Nation is a low fantasy set in an alternative history of our world in the 1860s. The book received recognition as a Michael L. Printz Honor Book for 2009.

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“Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.”

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“Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.”

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“I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black!
No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.”

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“They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down…”

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“What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?”

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“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”

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“Don't look back!"
"Why not?"
"Because I just did! Run faster!”

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“No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”

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“They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.”

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