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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b7aaeea | Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 706f9b4 | I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e4baeef | I WAS NOT EXPECTING A NAC MAC FEEGLE TODAY, said Death. OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE WORN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING, HA HA. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| ba4a342 | Sergeant Colon had had a broad education. He'd been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and was now a postgraduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6be7aa9 | She gazed out across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork and reasoned like this: writing was only the words that people said, squeezed between layers of paper until they were fossilized (fossils were well known on the Discworld, great spiraled shells and badly constructed creatures that were left over from the time when the Creator hadn't really decided what He wanted to make and was, as it were, just idly messing around with the Pleistocene). And.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1b36dba | The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency... | obsession single-mindedness vampire | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2995f96 | The disc's greatest lovers were undoubtedly Mellius and Gretelina, whose pure, passionate and soul-searing affair would have scorched the pages of History if they had not, because of some unexplained quirk of fate, been born two hundred years apart on different continents. However, the gods took pity on them and turned him into an ironing board** and her into a small brass bollard. **When you're a god, you don't have to have reasons. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d3289d7 | Talent just defines what you do," he said. "It doesn't define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| cb8b3cf | When much is taken, something is returned. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 534f92d | She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 422e761 | There was a bond, you see, when we were both young, but she wanted to be the best of all witches and I hoped one day to be Archchancellor. Alas for us, our dreams came true. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 490ad21 | SOD YOU, THEN, Death said. | humour | Terry Pratchett | |
| 88fccde | The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e1e339c | There's no a lot of laughs in an underworld. This one used to be called Limbo, ya ken, 'cause the door was verra low. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fcc9cc1 | Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it. | humor ring | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3625c90 | On the other hand the Nac Mac Feegle were always looking for a fight, in a cheerful sort of way, and when they had no one to fight they fought one another, and if one was all by himself he'd kick his own nose just to keep in practice. | nac-mac-feegles speed | Terry Pratchett | |
| c6e87b3 | Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7cc5b28 | When they're laughing at you, their guard is down. When their guard is down, you can kick them in the fracas. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3a9f9a8 | It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doin.. | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 42f3b4e | Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 863651b | I believe the term is 'eminent domain.' Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government, | government | Terry Pratchett | |
| c8560fa | Look down, your grace," said Skimmer. "Mhm, mhm." Vimes realized he could feel the faintest prick of a knife blade on his stomach. "Look down further," he said. Inigo looked down. He swallowed. Vimes had a knife, too. "You really no gentleman, then," he said. "Make a sudden move and neither are you," said Vimes." | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| a3e7486 | People build something that works. Then circumstances change, and they have to tinker with it to make it continue to work, and they are so busy tinkering that they cannot see that a much better idea would be to build a whole new system to deal with the new circumstances. But to an outsider, the idea is obvious. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7b7d9cc | Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you know how easy it is. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2f70e85 | He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| cbfc690 | Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we'd been at all competent. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| cd5602c | He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew...then it was too high. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 47c9eac | Grownups can deal with scraped knees, dropped ice-cream cones, and lost dollies, but if they suspected the real reasons we cry they would fling us out of their arms in horrified revulsion. Yet we are small and as terrified as we are terrifying in our ferocious appetites | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 8a0c5be | The more people we exclude, the more people will want to join. That's what exclusive means. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 25920fd | A question is a polite way of demanding something. | Edward De Bono | ||
| 0cb0c45 | I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone .. | hopelessness sad suicide | Juliet Marillier | |
| 707842d | Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult. | lesson trust | Juliet Marillier | |
| 27846a1 | He was seated on the bench now. He had his left elbow on his knee, his right arm across his lap, his shoulders hunched, his head bowed. White face, red hair: snow and fire, like something from an old tale. The book I had noticed earlier was on the bench beside him, its covers shut. Around Anluan's feet and in the birdbath, small visitors to the garden hopped and splashed and made the most of the day that was becoming fair and sunny. He did .. | love prince | Juliet Marillier | |
| e2c15a5 | We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed the soil, so we find our courage in the pattern of living things around us. They stand through storm and tempest. They grow and renew themselves. Like a grove of young oaks, we remain strong. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| d52d056 | His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky. | autumn description eyes grey-eyes him open sky | Juliet Marillier | |
| b1a3c32 | My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well as a woman, to make a child. Is this infant's father to be a crab, or a seagull maybe? Or were you planning to shipwreck some likely sailor on my doorstep, so I can make convenient use of him?" | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 39d6eb1 | She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it hardly helped him. For all he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 8e6e29e | Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain. Suffering does not necessarily imply love, but love implies suffering | suffering | Andrew Solomon | |
| 39c8f95 | I am not waiting for a prince on a white horse. I am waiting for you... So why don't you kiss me? | Frank Warren | ||
| 1a84b71 | I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom. | heroes heroism | Mercedes Lackey | |
| a1ac085 | He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 91668b1 | To world enough and time. | love time world | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 9a2648d | Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 020bf1a | Welcome to the real world Kerri. Shit happens. You don't get to stop it by being a nun or telling the truth or turning counter clockwise three times while facing the sun and clucking like a chicken. It's a crapshoot and sometimes you lose. | Susan Mallery |