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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 61c0bbd | People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour. | revolution salvation vimes | Terry Pratchett | |
| f1bf3da | I let you sleep, Sam," said Lady Sybil. "You didn't get in this morning until after three." "Everyone's double-shifting, dear," said Sam, daring Carrot and Sally to even think about telling anyone they'd seen the boss wearing a blue shawl covered in ducks. "I've got to set a good example." "I'm sure you intend to, Sam, but you like a horrible warning," said Sybil." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 958a5e9 | You won't enjoy it," sighed Crowley. "It's been in the car for more than a fortnight." A heavy bass beat began to thump through the Bentley as they sped past Heathrow. Aziraphale's brow furrowed. "I don't recognize this," he said. "What is it?" "It's Tchaikovsky's 'Another One Bites the Dust'," said Crowley, closing his eyes as they went through Slough. To while away the time as they crossed the sleeping Chilterns, they also listened to Wil.. | music queen | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3ce05a0 | Twoflower didn't just look at the world through rose-tinted spectacles, Rincewind knew--he looked at it through a rose-tinted brain, too, and heard it through rose-tinted ears. | twoflower | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0f61539 | The gods help those who help themselves, and my word, didn't I help myself. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9ae4c51 | The three thieves looked around. As their eyes grew accustomed to the gloom, they received a general impression of armourality, with strong overtones of helmetness. | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| a0f6cfd | More than half the skill of writing lies in tricking the book out of your own head. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7d6d6fe | To his mild surprise, the men were still out in the yard. Someone had even hung up the swordsmanship targets, which would certainly be helpful if the watch-men were faced with an enemy who was armless and tied to a pole. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3d4ebb7 | She is standing just behind you. Just behind your right shoulder." In the silence of the woods, Polly turned. "I can't see her," she said. "I am happy for you," said Wazzer, handing her the empty mug. "But I didn't see anything," said Polly. "No," said Wazzer. "But you turned around..." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c6bba63 | It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 365d72f | I'm sure it's all journalism [...] It means it's true enough for now. | journalism news newspapers | Terry Pratchett | |
| 17eb265 | The only hat worth wearing was the one you made for yourself, not one you bought, not one you were given. Your own hat, for your own head. Your own future, not someone else's. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d491044 | And personalities define themselves in terms of other personalities. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9971654 | They'd come here to spoon and, on one memorable occasion, fork. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0cd9c7e | A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bcd5335 | There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain in case the mere act of acknowledging it will cause it to vanish, like trying to look at a photon. You can only sidle up to it, lookong past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2be7e23 | The young man is also an idealist. He has yet to find out that what's in the public interest is not what the public is interested in. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f896dac | And he read all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it. | books dragons interest reading | Terry Pratchett | |
| 01e067f | A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath. | reflection thoughful universe | Terry Pratchett | |
| 73e478c | Uncertainty is always uncertain, but the difficulty with people who rely on systems is that they begin to believe that nearly everything is in some way a system and therefore, sooner or later, they become bureaucrats. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0ae50e3 | Vetinari gave him a look that did not actually employ a raised eyebrow but which implied that one might be forthcoming if the recipient of the look pushed his luck. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ff04c2c | These are the Things that Make a Man Iron enough to make a nail, Lime enough to paint a wall, Water enough to drown a dog, Sulphur enough to stop the fleas, Potash enough to wash a shirt, Gold enough to buy a bean, Silver enough to coat a pin, Lead enough to ballast a bird, Phosphor enough to light the town, Poison enough to kill a cow, Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dbc5ec4 | And in this doleful mood he ventured to wonder if they ever thought back to when things were just old-fangled or not fangled at all as against the modern day when fangled had reached its apogee. Fangling was indeed, he thought, here to stay. Then he wondered: had anyone ever thought of themselves as a fangler? | raising-steam vetinari | Terry Pratchett | |
| 59fd3cd | they believed that for a thing to exist it had to have a position in time and space. Humanity had arrived as a nasty shock. Humanity practically was things that didn't have a position in time and space, such as imagination, pity, hope, history, and belief. Take those away and all you had was an ape that fell out of trees a lot. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 20447b4 | You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1215b99 | Good God, but life could be less than easy, not that he was unaware that it could certainly be a lot worse, but to go about in such a state, pulse high, face red, worried sick that someone would notice how nervous one was, was certainly less than ideal, and he felt sure that his body was secreting all kinds of harmful chemicals and that the more he worried about the harmful chemicals the faster they were pouring out of wherever it was they .. | life worrying | George Saunders | |
| 67acf13 | We all accepted that this land was a gate to that other world, the realm of spirits and dreams and the Fair Folk, without any question. The place we grew up in was so full of magic that it was almost a part of everyday life - not to say you'd meet one of them every time you went out to pick berries, or draw water from your well, but everyone we knew had a friend of a friend who'd strayed too far into the forest, and disappeared; or ventured.. | fairies-faeries inevitable | Juliet Marillier | |
| 4621046 | For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits. | spirit tale | Juliet Marillier | |
| 528e2d8 | I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about someone, you could do it and not feel your spirit torn in two. But the forest keeps her hold on all those who are born there, and they cannot travel far without the yearning in them to return. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 19dc06a | I felt Red's arm close around me like a shield against the rest of the world. His mouth was against my hair, and his heart thumped violently under my cheek. I shut my eyes, and held onto his shirt with both hands, and wept. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 5c9cd3e | Because if I see you defeated, then I think I will see Alban defeated, and if that happens, none of us can go on. To guard you is to guard the heart of this land of ours. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 1ae66c2 | Later I stirred again, knowing the night was passing, but unwilling to wake fully lest this fair vision be lost forever. There was an arm across me, holding the cloak around me; and the same old blanket covered the two of us. Darragh lay behind me, his body curled neatly against my own, his living warmth a part of me, his slow peaceful breathing steady against my hair. I kept quite still. I did not allow myself to return to full consciousne.. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| d750bb6 | I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 102908c | Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me! | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 19cd684 | Not all were joyful tales; we needed to acknowledge that love was not just kisses, smiles, and fulfillment, but also sacrifice, compromise, and hard work. | love love-quotes | Juliet Marillier | |
| c0188e9 | There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| ea8a44e | Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others). | George Saunders | ||
| e7663ce | The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven. | girls men-and-women relationships | George Saunders | |
| 7ba3671 | There is no essential self that lies pure as a vein of gold under the chaos of experience and chemistry. Anything can be changed, and we must understand the human organism as a sequence of selves that succumb to or choose one another. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 336f86a | I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender. | genderqueer sex transgender | Andrew Solomon | |
| 27610c5 | It is a surprise to me to like myself; among all the elaborate possibilities I contemplated for my future, that never figured. My hard-won contentment reflects the simple truth that inner peace often hinges on outer peace. In the gnostic gospel of St. Thomas, Jesus says, "If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you." | andrew solomon | ||
| 7cf9143 | Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 51a2797 | Everything passes away--suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will still remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why? | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 7d42fdd | Grief is a humble angel who leaves you with strong, clear thoughts and a sense of your own depth. Depression is a demon who leaves you appalled. | Andrew Solomon |