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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1d35697 | That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know. | terry-pratchett vimes | Terry Pratchett | |
| d888b33 | This is no way to treat a book," he said. "Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no idea of how to treat them." -- | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 139a337 | Having a baby is the single mos joyous co-experience that two human beings can share, and he wasn't going to miss a second of it. He got one of the Secret Service men to videotape it for him. | having-a-baby | Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman | |
| 43237c4 | Did she help people?" Miss Level added. ... ... "She made them help one another, she said. "She made them help themselves." ... ... Miss Level sighed. "Not many of us are that good," she said." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d017aa5 | The Universe isn't just a light show, they keep it running during the day too. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1ace340 | Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, the roots were still there underground, waiting to spring up again. It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6310bf9 | It was never easy being a witch. Oh, the broomstick was great, but to be a witch you needed to be sensible, so sensible that sometimes it hurt. You dealt with the reality--not what people wanted. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 45e295b | I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f694ee1 | Being a witch is a man's job: that's why it needs women to do it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7b358cd | She felt better for all that. A good shouting at somebody always makes you feel better and in control, especially if you aren't. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4a101d2 | Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a0cccc4 | I thought dwarfs gold," said Angua. "They just say that to get it into bed." | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| c3ac7ac | I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7f626ea | Where's the sense in promising to achive the achievable? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| da874b7 | She'd read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren't supposed to. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 355cf2f | Mistress Weatherwax, you are a natural disputant." "No I ain't!" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a80ea74 | The storm walked around the hills on legs of lightning, shouting and grumbling. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7050ba2 | Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant about the sound of billions of very small feet hitting the stones in perfect time. Rincewind stepped gingerly over the marching column. The Librarian jumped it. The Luggage, of course, followed them with a noise like someone tapdancing over a bag of crisps. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bdfc117 | Humans are always slightly lost. It's a basic characteristic. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 06fa7fd | It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible particle of magic, was succesfully demonstrated to be made up of /resons/ (Lit.: 'Thing-ies') or reality fragments. Currently research indicates that each reson is itself made up of a combination of at least five 'flavours', known as 'up', 'down', 'sideways', 'sex appeal' and 'peppermint'. | quarks science | Terry Pratchett | |
| 507a0f0 | It was amazing, this mystic business. You tell them a lie, and then when you don't need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they'll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable. Amazing. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| cd4f3b9 | Vimes felt a sudden surge of civic pride. There had to be something right about a citizenry which, when faced with catastrophe, thought about selling sausages to the participants. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ac9a466 | Don't start weaving a social hypothesis in front of an angry woman holding a blade. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e171dab | My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure," said Carrot. "Really? Well, there's eleven of them." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a2b7041 | Falling isn't so bad, you know. It's only the landing that hurts. | falling hurts landing | Terry Pratchett | |
| e1a7ea5 | Are you staying with us? It could be dangerous,' said William, realizing that he was saying this to a vampire iconographer who undied every time he took a picture. | otto-chriek pratchett terry-pratchett william-de-worde | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6ae99e7 | That --ing zombie is going to end up on the end of a couple of --ing handy and versatile kebab skewers,' said Mr Tulip. 'An' then I'm gonna put an edge on this --ing spatula. An' then... then I'm gonna get medieval on his arse.' There were more pressing problems, but this one intrigued Mr Pin. 'How, exactly?' he said. 'I thought maybe a maypole,' said Mr Tulip reflectively. 'An' then a display of country dancing, land tillage under the thre.. | mr-pin mr-tulip pratchett terry-pratchett the-truth | Terry Pratchett | |
| fa36767 | We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 04163e6 | Granny disapproved of magic for domestic purposes, but she was annoyed. She also wanted her tea. She threw a couple of logs into the fireplace and glared at them until they burst into flame out of sheer embarrassment. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4caea35 | Most people, on waking up, accelerate through a quick panicky pre-consciousness check-up: who am I, where am I, who is he/she, good god, why am I cuddling a policeman's helmet, what happened last night? And this is because people are riddled by Doubt. It is the engine that drives them through their lives. It is the elastic band in the little model aeroplane of their soul, and they spend their time winding it up until it knots. Early morning.. | humour terry-prattchet | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3f41039 | He sighed and opened the black box and took out his rings and slipped them on. Another box held a set of knives and Klatchian steel, their blades darkened with lamp black. Various cunning and intricate devices were taken from velvet bags and dropped into pockets. A couple of long-bladed throwing tlingas were slipped into their sheaths inside his boots. A thin silk line and folding grapnel were wound around his waist, over the chain-mail shi.. | discworld dungeons-and-dragons fantasy humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2e0856e | It is in the nature of the universe that the person who always keeps you waiting ten minutes will, on the day you are ten minutes tardy, have been ready ten minutes early and will make a point of not mentioning this. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| abaa0b3 | Trolls have 5,400 words for rocks and one for vegetation. "Oograah" means everything from moss to giant redwoods. The way trolls see it, if you can't eat it, it's not worth naming it." | vegetation | Terry Pratchett | |
| af84350 | Don't trust the cannibal just 'cos he's usin' a knife and fork! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 19430b9 | Stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 18b854c | There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dc48b72 | Rincewind tried shutting his eyes, but there were no eyelids to his imagination and it was staring widely | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 72abbfb | You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 601ba8f | The city wasa, wasa, wasa wossname. Thing. . Thass what it was. Woman. Roaring, ancient, centuries old. Strung you along, let you fall in thingy, love, with her, then kicked you inna, inna, thingy. Thingy, in your mouth. Tongue. Tonsils. . That's what it, she, did. She wasa...thing, you know, lady dog. Puppy. Hen. . | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 234c804 | He sagged to his knees. He ached all over. It wasn't just that his brain was writing cheques that his body couldn't cash. It had gone beyond that. Now his feet were borrowing money that his legs hadn't got, and his back muscles were looking for loose change under the sofa cushions. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b425b10 | Nothing-to-see is what most of the universe consists of. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bfdf637 | the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f382c45 | It was turning out to be one of those days. The sort you got every day. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2479b24 | Crystal Lil, her door propped open, sits in front of the television with a pan in her lap, a brown bag at her feet. She | Katherine Dunn |