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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 16f5bf8 | Nanny just tended to put a hot poultice on everything and recommend a large glass of whatever the patient liked best on the basis that since you were going to be ill anyway you might as well get some enjoyment out of it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5533ed0 | He removed his hat, something a wizard doesn't ordinarily do unless he's about to pull something out of it, and handed it to the Bursar. Then he tore a thin strip off the bottom of his robe, held it dramatically in both hands, and tied it around his forehead. "It's part of the ethos," he said, in answer to their penetratingly unspoken question. "That's what the warriors on the Counterweight Continent do before they go into battle. And you .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 03d914e | He felt eyes suddenly upon him because marital telepathy is a terrible thing | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9d060e0 | The night is always old. He'd walked too often down dark streets in the secret hours and felt the night stretching away, and known in his blood that while days and kings and empires come and go, the night is always the same age, always aeons deep. Terrors unfolded in the velvet shadows and while the nature of the talons may change, the nature of the beast does not. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a06f7be | I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING." WOULD YOU LIKE A PRAWN?" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7472010 | If they look as though they're worried, we'll move in.' 'And do what exactly?' said Polly. 'Threaten to shoot them,' said Maladict firmly. 'And if they don't believe us?' 'Then we'll threaten to shoot them ,' said Maladict. 'Happy? And I hope to hell they've got some coffee! | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 60c2373 | WITCHES ARE MATRILINEAL, said Death. THEY FIND IT MUCH EASIER TO CHANGE MEN THAN TO CHANGE NAMES. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dc94131 | It's hard to be an ornithologist and walk through a wood when all around you the world is shouting: 'Bugger off, this is my bush! Aargh, the nest thief! Have sex with me, I can make my chest big and red! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e3762ad | Greebo turned upon Granny Weatherwax a yellow-eyed stare of self-satisfied malevolence, such as cats always reserve for people who don't like them, and purred. Greebo was possibly the only cat who could snigger in purr. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e3187d2 | If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| cadc09e | In the swamp the alligators drifted like patches of bad-assed water. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dac21ea | You see, the only thing the good people are good at is overthrowing the bad people. And you're good at that, I'll grant you. But the trouble is it's the only thing you're good at. One day it's the ringing of the bells and the casting down of the evil tyrant, and the next it's everyone sitting around complaining that ever since the tyrant was overthrown no one's been taking out the trash. Because the bad people know how to plan. It's part of.. | humor inspirational vetinari | Terry Pratchett | |
| b27666e | People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. Crowley had thought about this for some time and, around about 1023, had said, Hang on, that only works, right, if you start everyone off equal, okay? You can't start someone off in a muddy shack in the middle of a war zone and expect them to do as well as someone born in a castle. Ah, Aziraphale had said, that's the good bit. The low.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 422847a | There's always something to eat, if you're hungry enough. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b2533a1 | There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7372291 | Agnes felt that beauty was even more likely to be in the eye of the beholder if the feet of the beholder were on something solid. At ten thousand feet up, the eye of the beholder tends to water. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8925b33 | the queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a88e9de | Rough Music... "No one controls the music, Mr. Pretty - you know that. It just turns up when people have had enough. No one knows where it starts. People look around, and catch on another's eye, and give each other a little nod, and other people see that. Other people catch their eye and so, very slowly, the music starts and somebody picks up a spoon and bangs it on a plate, and then somebody else bangs a jug on the table and boots starts t.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c73d1c9 | OH. DRAMA. Oh, hell. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ac06c8a | New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was suddenly totally important to the world. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 976208c | This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the vibrations of all the other workings of that story that have ever been. This is why history keeps on repeating all the time. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0cdb572 | Coppers were always outnumbered, so being a copper only worked when people let it work. If they refocused and realized you were just another standard idiot with a pennyworth of metal for a badge, you could end up as a smear on the pavement. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d7e77c5 | Some people say you achieve immortality through your children," said the minstrel. "Yeah?" said Cohen. "Name one of your great-granddads, then." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 89fd88b | Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ac31650 | Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests]. | Edward De Bono | ||
| b296a11 | To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition of a new way of looking at things. | Edward De Bono | ||
| a0c09d2 | Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please." --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries." | Juliet Marillier | ||
| e595bc2 | I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| b2da2c8 | The end of the story is of your making, nobody else's. You can do with it as you choose. There are as many paths open to your hero as branches on a great tree. They are wonderful and terrible, and plain and twisted. They touch and part and intermingle, and you can follow them whatever way you will. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| cddf97f | I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting. | resistance | Juliet Marillier | |
| 09bedec | Don't punish me for what you see as your own failings. I want to be with you more than anything in the world. I've dreamed of this since that day you spoke of, the day you called me 'my heart' and surprised me with a kiss. Never mind the handfasting, if you don't want that. But please don't push me away. I know you love me. I love you with all my heart. Please give this time. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| cd7364c | Let there be a time in the future, I prayed, when he laughs with his children, and plays on the shore with them, and spends all his nights in loving arms. Let us have that. To whom I was praying I did not know. The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it. | love | Juliet Marillier | |
| a608e7f | Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible. | longing | Juliet Marillier | |
| 5ab46b0 | I saw that in him she had found her sun and moon, her stars and her dreams. | Juliet marillier | ||
| 2012b96 | He would have told her--he would have said, it matters not if you are here, or there, for I see you before me every moment. I see you in the light on the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night. You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are-.. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 2b9a751 | Why were we made just so, to find so many things that happened every day pretty? | George Saunders | ||
| d99455d | Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| e1fa051 | There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 1cec467 | Defective is an adjective that has long been deemed too freighted for liberal discourse, but the medical terms that have supplanted it--illness, syndrome, condition--can be almost equally pejorative in their discreet way. We often use illness to disparage a way of being, and identity to validate that same way of being. This is a false dichotomy. In physics, the Copenhagen interpretation defines energy/matter as behaving sometimes like a wav.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| e382550 | everything. I would never want depression to be a public or political excuse, but I think that once you have gone through it, you get a greater and more immediate understanding of the temporary absence of judgment that makes people behave so badly--you learn even, perhaps, how to tolerate the evil in the world." On the happy day when we lose depression, we will lose a great deal with it. If the earth could feed itself and us without rain, a.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| aa6d97d | Muddling along ... is the great secret to life... You take the good and the bad and cope as they happen" - Gallen in Intrigues" | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 9b496ff | It was Mags' turn to snort. "But most on it is there ain't 'nough space for him an' his ego t' be in th' same room at th' same time." | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 4d1c516 | Life is attention to both the large and the small, little brother. Pay heed to the sun, but watch your feet, or you'll fall ingloriously on your nose. | mercedes-lake storm-breaking | Mercedes Lackey | |
| bd716e2 | You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah," Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses." | Mercedes Lackey |