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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7001075 | Do you need an excuse to have a war? I mean, who for? Can't you just say "You got lots of cash and land, but I've got a big sword, so divvy up right now, chop chop." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ddd84fe | He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up and marched past his brain in terrified obedience. Division and multiplication were discovered. Algebra was invented and provided an interesting diversion for a minute or two. And then he felt the fog of numbers drift away, and looked up and saw the sparkling, distant mountains of calculus. | math mathematics | Terry Pratchett | |
| 86c3cc8 | I'm just capable of entertaining the fantastic idea that, in certain circumstances, might actually be capable of thinking. It must be worth a go, since we've tried everything else. | people living life-lessons life-philosophy thinking | Terry Pratchett | |
| a83f948 | The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just wasn't the kind of logic you'd use around midday. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5702788 | Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum. When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| cc54831 | But it's what I call "The Valley Filled with Clouds" technique. You're at the edge of the valley, and there is a church steeple, and there is a tree, and there is a rocky outcrop, but the rest of it is mist. But you know that because they exist, there must be ways of getting from one to the other that you cannot see. And so you start the journey. And when I write, I write a draft entirely for myself, just to walk the valley and find out wha.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a4fa6f9 | Once you get troops on the streets, it's only a matter of time before it goes bad. Some kid throws a stone, next minute there's houses on fire and people getting killed. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 06a6e7c | This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn't just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 538055e | Genua had once controlled the river mouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn't be called piracy because it was done by the city government, and therefore sound economics and perfectly all right | politics humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| d44d987 | Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found reason not to be. He would step off a high building in the happy state of mind of someone who intended to deal with the problem of the ground when it presented itself. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 51d3a7f | They looked up. Someone with a face and apron that said 'barman' in seven hundred languages was standing over them, a wine jug in each hand. "No women in here," he went on. "Why not?" said Nobby. "No women asking questions, neither." "Why not?" "'cos it is written, that's why." "Where'm I supposed to go, then?" The barman shrugged. "Who knows where women go?" "Off you go, Beti," said the Patrician. "And ... listen for information!" Nobby gr.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 22109fc | The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things. | competency stealth | Terry Pratchett | |
| 9a44529 | It's bad enough barging into Guild property, but we'll get into really serious trouble if we shoot anyone. Lord Vetinari won't stop at sarcasm. He might use' - Colon swallowed - 'irony. | vetinari | Terry Pratchett | |
| b0be384 | It is now known to science that there are many more dimensions than the classical four. Scientists say that these don't normally impinge on the world because the extra dimensions are very small and curve in on themselves, and that since reality is fractal most of it is tucked inside itself. This means either that the universe is more full of wonders than we can hope to understand or, more probably, that scientists make things up as they go .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f3c728e | Mission motto, sir," said Carrot cheerfully. "Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it." "I imagine he did," said Lord Vetinari, observing the wizard coldly. "And would you care to give us a colloquial translation, Mr Rincewind?" "Er..." Rincewind hesitated, but there really was no escape. "Er... roughly speaking, it means, 'We who are about to die don't want to', sir." | humor cowardice parody | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0ee43b6 | Granny Weatherwax looked out at the multi-layered, silvery world. "Where am I?" INSIDE THE MIRROR. "Am I dead?" THE ANSWER TO THAT, said Death, IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN NO AND YES. Esme turned, and a billion figures turned with her. "When can I get out?" WHEN YOU FIND THE ONE THAT'S REAL. "Is this a trick question?" NO. Granny looked down at herself. "This one," she said." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5c4e565 | At the top of the cellar steps Broadman knelt down and fumbled in his tinderbox. It turned out to be damp. 'I'll kill that bloody cat,' he muttered, and groped for the spare box that was normally on the ledge by the door. It was missing. Broadman said a bad word. A lighted taper appeared in mid-air, right beside him. HERE, TAKE THIS. 'Thanks,' said Broadman. DON'T MENTION IT. Broadman went to throw the taper down the steps. His hand pa.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2605374 | Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o'clocks in one day. | raising-steam mornings | Terry Pratchett | |
| e21debc | You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich. | terry-pratchett | Terry Pratchett | |
| d52c6e7 | RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'. | Sylvia Nasar | ||
| cdd6271 | I've conquered them. 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. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| c03c856 | There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 110613c | As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 546d40c | A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real." | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 31336fa | The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| ac72307 | So Cu Chulainn asked and he asked, and at length he learned that the best teacher of the arts of war was a woman, Scathach, a strange creature who lived on a tiny island off the coast of Alba." "A woman?" someone echoed scornfully. "How could that be?" "Ah, well, this was no ordinary woman, as our hero soon found out for himself. When he came to the wild shore of Alba and looked across the raging waters to the island where she lived with he.. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 8451ebf | There is no life that does not have the material for despair in it, but some people go too close to the edge and others manage to stay sometimes sad in a safe clearing far from the cliffs. Once you cross over, the rules all change. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 6b1cf64 | There is something ironic in prejudice against the disabled and their families, because their plight might befall anybody. Straight men are unlikely to wake up gay one morning, and white children don't become black; but any of us could be disabled in an instant. People with disabilities make up the largest minority in America; they constitute 15 percent of the population, though only 15 percent of those were born with their disability and a.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| c779a45 | My depression had grown on me as that vine had conquered the oak; it had been a sucking thing that had wrapped itself around me, ugly and more alive than I. It had had a life of its own that bit by bit asphyxiated all of my life out of me. At the worst stage of major depression, I had moods that I knew were not my moods: they belonged to the depression, as surely as the leaves on that tree's high branches belonged to the vine. When I tried .. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 5c3d34e | The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend." | communication internet | Andrew Solomon | |
| 6c864ad | Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of contin.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| a9b1784 | Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying. | sadistic sarcasm | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 2174b5d | But--" she tried not to wail, but her voice crept upward, anyway "--I want to go HOME--" "And I want a palace and a handsome, young prince who has an unnatural lust for old women, and neither of us are going to get what we crave, so let's concentrate on what we can do something about!" Granny said sharply." | humor granny mercedes-lackey bella | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 570fac9 | Harrier says the Wild Magic is as annoying as a . And the only other Wildmage either of us has ever met kept hitting him with a wooden spoon. Wildmages aren't like, oh - like Kellen and Idalia and Vestakia the Redeemed in . They're people.' [Tiercel Rolfort] | inspirational tiercel | Mercedes Lackey | |
| a77d434 | In a dog's world, only three states existed: "now," "in a while," and "forever." If someone left, he was gone "forever," and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone "forever." | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 6a49eb7 | A quaint conceit, don't you think? | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 024dcbb | I think I know why you never married, Sarah. | men | Mercedes Lackey | |
| e589169 | That's the thing about living vicariously; it's so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we'll be worrying about names for the children. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 4fc6ace | Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence? | love audrey-niffenegger the-time-traveler-s-wife | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 8bce8d8 | I love you always. Time is nothing. | love-story time-travel | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 3a010c8 | Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has never bothered to do so because it's not normal; that he has decided to set aside his fanatical dedication to living like a normal person so I can have a studio big enough to roller-skate across; that I am being an ingrate. "Clare? Earth to Clare..." "Thank you," I say, too abruptly." | love thanks selflessness | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 048f24e | Because we were treated neglectfully and abusively in our young years--when we most needed self-love to be mirrored--it was difficult to hold onto...We take up the challenge of learning to love ourselves, through our highs & our lows, when we are finding acceptance from others and when we are being closed out and rejected. | love-yourself child-abuse-survivors child-neglect emotional-neglect self-love-quotes recovery-from-abuse healing-from-abuse child-abuse healing-insights self-acceptance healing self-love emotional-abuse neglect | Maureen Brady | |
| df4d598 | You're not someone I could forget," he murmured." | Susan Mallery | ||
| 8102fc1 | Where's Lori?" he asked when he saw the nurse wasn't there. "She's not avoiding me, is she?" His grandmother slipped off her glasses, put down her book and stared at him. "Amazingly enough, the whole world doesn't revolve around you, Reid. Lori's sister is sick and Lori took her to the doctor. She'll be back in an hour or so. Can you survive on your own until then, or should I call 9-1-1 for emergency assistance?" | Susan Mallery |