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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0567bfa | I mean, it's one thing saying you've got the best god, but sayin' it's the only real one is a bit of a cheek, in my opinion. I know where I can find at least two any day of the week. And they say everyone starts out bad and only gets good by believin' in Om, which is frankly damn nonsense. | religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| 27cacb2 | Well, child? Aren't you going to try to turn me into some kind of unspeakable creature? I don't think I shall bother, madam, seeing as you are making such a good job of it yourself! | humor sarcasm | Terry Pratchett | |
| f10f02c | I have to ask, sir...Why does it have to be done like this?" Vetinari smiled. "Can you keep a secret, Mister Lipwig?" "Oh, yes, sir. I've kept lots." "Capital. And the point is, so can I. You do not need to know." | secrets vetinari | Terry Pratchett | |
| 33b107b | All around him people were eating their unfood wih, if not actual evidence of enjoyment, then with no more actual disgust than was to be found in burger chains all over the planet. He stood up, took his tray over to the PLEASE DISPOSE OF YOUR REFUSE WITH CARE receptacle, and dumped the whole thing. If you had told him that there were children starving in Africa he would have been flattered that you'd noticed. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e31f60b | Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad. | aristocrats being-right being-wrong | Terry Pratchett | |
| 597cb68 | Where I come from, Annagramma, they have the Sheepdog Trials. Shepherds travel there from all over to show off their dogs. And there're silver crooks and belts with silver buckles and prizes of all kinds, Annagramma, but do you know what the big prize is? No, you wouldn't. Oh, there are judges, but they don't count, not for the big prize. There is - there was a little old lady who was always at the front of the crowd, leaning on the hurdles.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8006db6 | Her books on alchemy were marvellous objects, every page a work of the engraver's art, but they nowhere contained instructions like "Be sure to open a window". They have instructions like "Adde to the Zinc untile Rising Gas Yse Vigorousky Evolved", but never added "Don't Doe Thys Atte Home" or even "And Say Fare-Thee-Welle to Thy Eyebrows." | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1846dc7 | Shut up sergeant. You're a free troll. That's an order" Sam Vimes" | terry-pratchett the-fifth-elephant | Terry Pratchett | |
| c05a57a | He's going to arrest the Patrician, Vimes told himself, the thought trickling through his brain like an icy rivulet. He's actually going to arrest the Patrician. The supreme ruler. He's going to arrest him. This is what he's actually going to do. The boy doesn't know the meaning of the word "fear." Oh, wouldn't it be a good idea if he knew the meaning of the word "survival"..." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1641074 | She prowled the city on moonlit nights, and OK, there was the occasional chicken, but she always remembered where she'd been and went round the next day to shove some money under the door. It was hard to be a vegetarian who had to pick bits of meat out of her teeth in the morning. She was definately on top of it, though. It was easy to be a vegetarian by day. It was preventing yourself from becoming a humanitarian at night that took the rea.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f24c478 | He stared at his feet. "I'm still very ignorant," he said, "but at least I'm ignorant about really important things." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8ef6d7e | Think critically about what you are told. Do not accept the word of authority unthinkingly. Science is not a belief system: no belief system instructs you to question the system itself. Science does. (There are many scientists, however, who treat it as a belief system. Be wary of them.) | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 20ae591 | Never f*!k with the ineffable. | humor religion | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett | |
| 31cb286 | Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a dog in the city that could talk. (...) The dog in front of William didn't look as if it could talk, but it DID look as if it would swear. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f69871e | Why does everyone run toward a blood-curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It's contrary to all sense." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e119e11 | Then it came to her. She did deserve to die. And she was alone. She never would be. Not while her land was beneath her boots. land. The land of the Achings. She was Tiffany Aching. Not Granny Weatherwax, but a witch in her own right. A witch who knew exactly who she was and how she wanted to do things. Her way. And she had not failed, because she had barely begun... | tiffany-aching | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6740a3a | It was a still night, tinted with the promise of dawn. A crescent moon was just setting. Ankh-Morpork, largest city in the lands around the Circle Sea, slept. That statement is not really true On the one hand, those parts of the city which normally concerned themselves with, for example, selling vegetables, shoeing horses, carving exquisite small jade ornaments, changing money and making tables, on the whole, slept. Unless they had insomnia.. | funny humor poetic-simile | Terry Pratchett | |
| b635ec5 | Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 523a696 | It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and the wind at eighty miles per hour. That would do it every time. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9f423b9 | It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me. | getting-old | Katherine Dunn | |
| 23bcc45 | He had Oly letter a little card that he taped on his wall. The thing read, 'The only liars bigger than the quack are the quack's patients.' Arty used to just keep me in stitches. Eleven years old he was then. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 2faa1ae | My heart died. Arty would despise her. But Mama told me to go on hoping. "Go ahead and love her," Mama said. I've wondered since whether those were Mama's last words, the final sizzle of her synapses." | Katherine Dunn | ||
| dea8a72 | Later, at the sink in our van, Mama rinsed the blue stain and the odd spiders, caterpillars, and stems from the bucket. "Not what we usually start with, but we can go again tomorrow. And this will set up nicely in about six, eight jars." The berries were beginning to simmer in the big pot on the back burner. Mama pushed her dark wooden spoon into the foaming berries and cicrcled the wall of the pot slowly. I leaned my hot arms on the tab.. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 92f9511 | You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them. | Edward De Bono | ||
| 88fc92c | The girl is not yours, or mine, or anyone's. But for now, she travels under my protection, and let him who lays a hand on her answer to me. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 47c3b72 | Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn't like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| db5c2ea | You thought you'd never give up your vocation, a voice whispered inside me. You thought you'd never even consider it. But you've met the one man who could change your mind. He is your perfect complement. He is Cathal to your Clodagh; he is Bran to your Liadan. No wonder you conjured up those images. No wonder they make you weep. | seer-of-sevenwaters | Juliet Marillier | |
| 6014120 | It seemed to me it would be better to die standing up to a tyrant than to survive as a tool of his will. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| dec2d10 | Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| e7667d1 | Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| f512039 | Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving .. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| f8c33fc | The things that save you are as frequently trivial as monumental. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 3c0ec02 | If you would rise, do so alone. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 50515e6 | Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| a0ae0ab | Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff. | appreciation architecture chicago good-stuff value | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| a302e0c | Do you worry sometimes that all the really great stuff has already happened? | time | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| c8d7a6a | Look, I am living. On what? Neither the childhood nor future/ grows any smaller...Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| d8a6312 | Being in love is...anxious," he said. "Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is...you're naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all...I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her" | inspiration life love love-quotes naked truth | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 7a6f65e | My reflection in the mirror shows me pink and puffy. I thought pregnant women were to supposed to glow. I am not glowing. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 519e960 | Love is always enough. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 9c7852b | Life wasn't meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 0715b66 | Love is supposed to be scary. If it was easy, everyone would do it. | love scary | Susan Mallery | |
| 2395043 | All her grace was in her vagueness. Her voice was soft, her manner languid, her features blurred and dreamy. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3f4161e | Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o'clock, you hardly think what you're going to feed the corpse for dinner. | Tartt Donna |