I did like the first two a bit better but this was very good.

Terry Pratchet is very quotable as well...

'If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly,' said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.

But it persisted, arriving in her mind like the unexpected limbo dancer under the lavatory door of Life.

Esk, of course, had not been trained, and it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.