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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c29e1c4 | Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave,' said Vorbis. 'So I understand,' said the Tyrant. 'I imagine that fish have no word for water. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9adae71 | The small alien walked past the car. "CO2 level up 0.5 percent," it rasped, giving him a meaningful look. "You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d56339b | I heard this story once," she said, "where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin' stuff about the universe and everythin' from another prisoner who was incredibly clever, and then he escaped and got his revenge." "What incredibly clever stuff do you know about the universe, Gytha Ogg?" said Granny. "Bugger all," said Nanny cheerfully. "Then we'd better bloody well escape right now." | learning prison | Terry Pratchett | |
| a7ac8c8 | A bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0dbc67c | This is Masher,' said Feeney. 'His father was a wild boar, his mother was surprised. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a4529ba | Hrun the Barbarian, who was practilly an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips. | humor pratchett | Terry Pratchett | |
| 506a8e0 | His mouth said: "Would you like to have dinner tonight?" For just the skin of a second, Miss Dearheart was surprised, but not half as surprised as Moist. Then her natural cynicism reinflated. "I like to have dinner every night. With you? No. I have things to do. Thank you for asking." "No problem," said Moist, slightly relieved." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fc67e82 | Everyone says it's going to be Snapcase at the palace. He listens to the people." "Yeah, right," said Vimes. And I listen to the thunder. But I don't do anything about it." | pratchett snapcase | Terry Pratchett | |
| 42b751e | And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c05beed | The grags came down heavily on those who did not conform and seemed not to realize that this was like stamping potatoes into the mud to stop them growing. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 30e2dfb | Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 12e7b20 | I told her we were going to get married, and all she could talk about was frogs. She said there's these hills where it's hot and rains all the time, and in the rainforests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called . . . bromeliads, I think, and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles h.. | wonder | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2a742c7 | I'm not a natural | peacekeeping police sam-vimes | Terry Pratchett | |
| 78568a2 | There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried every time. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 315080e | Broadly, therefore, the three even now lurching across the deserted planks of the Brass Bridge were dead drunk assassins and the men behind them were bent on inserting the significant comma. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 53d0dad | Another priest said,"Is it true you've said you'll believe in any god whose existence can be proved by logical debate?" "Yes." Vimes had a feeling about the immediate future and took a few steps away from Dorfl. "But the gods plainly exist," said a priest. "It Is Not Evident." A bolt of lightning lanced down through the clouds and hit Dorfl's helmet. There was a sheet of flame and then a trickling noise. Dorfl's molten armour formed puddl.. | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 05e71a1 | The only way to get something to turn up when you need it is to need it to turn up. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d71b6f2 | Our rulers rule by consent, which means that we like having them as rulers, if they do what we want them to do. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 72734b5 | Well, I'm sorry to have to tell you, sir, that your polar ice caps are below regulation size for a planet of this category, sir. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5d94f49 | Granny Weatherwax always held that you ought to count up to ten before losing your temper. No one knew why, because the only effect of this was to build up the pressure and make the ensuing explosion a whole lot worse. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| eac5d70 | Blessings be upon this house,' said Granny, but in a voice that suggested that if blessings needed to be taken away, she could do that, too. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3bc602a | Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3599290 | Witches have animals they can talk to, called familiars. Like your toad there." "I'm not familiar," said a voice from among the paper flowers. "I'm just slightly presumptuous." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fb32084 | That's how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 65baf6b | Orakula sozdaiot tot, kto zadaiot vopros i dumaet, budto slyshit otvet." Poka ia rezala miaso na tarelke Arti, moiu grud' raspirala toska, grozivshaia prolit'sia slezami iz glaz i sopliami iz nosa. Kak ia teper' ponimaiu, eto byla rasteriannost' i pechal', kakuiu ispytyvaiut vse deti, kogda im prikhoditsia zashchishchat' roditelei ot zhestokoi real'nosti. Detiam gor'ko i stranno videt', kakimi naivnymi, khrupkimi i uiazvimymi mogut byt' vzr.. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| fbf01f0 | They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. There | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 30c0fd1 | Hey, nit squat! These are written by norms to scare norms. And do you know what the monsters and demons and rancid spirits are? Us, that's what. You and me. We are the things that come to the norms in nightmares. The thing that lurks in the bell tower and bites out the throats of the choirboys--that's you, Oly. And the thing in the closet that makes the babies scream in the dark before it sucks their last breath--that's me. And the rustling.. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| d3f69cf | The truth is always an insult or a joke. Lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort." --" | Katherine Dunn | ||
| f0e69b1 | There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 33cf7a5 | being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas. | Edward De Bono | ||
| 37845ea | Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it? Something that touches you with joy or with terror, that lifts you out of your safe, little path and onto a great, wild road whose ending nobody knows? Don't you ever long for that? | Juliet Marillier | ||
| df4afd5 | If ever I was in a plane that was going down, rather than screaming, crying and railing against the inevitable, I would look out the window, watch my death speeding toward me, and fully appreciate the final experience of my life. | Frank Warren | ||
| a3cb3f9 | There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world than most people would believe. | ugliness | Mercedes Lackey | |
| aa4f800 | Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it--she--is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?" | love ocd pain | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| e5494cb | Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will. As I run I displace air, and things come and go around me, and the path moves like a filmstrip beneath my feet. | the-time-traveler-s-wife | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 11ac46e | He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 34fded9 | I'm curious about things that people aren't supposed to see--so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it better if I could go into all the offices and storage rooms, I want to look in all the drawers and--discover stuff. And I want to know about people. I mean, I know it's probably kind of rude but I want to know why you have all these boxes and what's in them and why all your windows are papered over and how l.. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 420cacc | I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room | happiness loss love memory mother | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 3614f2b | This spirit, this feeling that things aren't right and, in fact, things are so wrong than the only thing we can do is say Fuck It, over and over again, really loud until someone stops us. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 43ab4d0 | Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference? | sadness | Maureen Child | |
| dee5263 | I'm a librarian in town,' she began. 'You sure about that?' The words popped out before he could stop them. Annabelle raised her eyebrows. 'Fairly. It's my job and so far no one has told me to go away when I show up for work.' he thought, 'I was expecting someone wearing glasses. You know. Because librarians read a lot.' The raised eyebrows turned into a frown. 'You need to get out of the barn more. | awkward-encounters foot-in-mouth funny librarians shane | Susan Mallery | |
| 8d3fda8 | It's crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.")" | Donna Tartt | ||
| d84c66c | For a moment... I might have been the daughter she'd hoped for...she might have been my teacher and my guide...We might never have been enemies at all. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 77aea81 | With a demon wanting to devour me, I was feeling inclined to be devout . . . | Naomi Novik |