I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.
We're dealing here, said Vimes, With a twisted mind.Oh, no! You think so?Yes.But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with us all the time.Not Nobby, said Vimes testily. Whatever he might do...
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
No,' she said. 'No, I don't reckon that's what I do now. Are you watchin', Mrs Gogol? Are you watchin' real close?' Her gaze travelled the room and rested for just a fraction of a second on Magrat. Th...
The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. This is one of the great ancient world myths, found wherever men and turtles were gathered together; the four elephants were an Indo-European sop...
Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.
You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face p...
On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.
Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.
There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.
Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited patiently as a herd of Critters crawled past, grazing on the contents of the choicer books and leavin...
Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it were created at all and didn't just start, as it were, unofficially, it came to being between ten and twenty thousand million years a...
The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them...
You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?
His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.
A los que Crowley no podía soportar era a ésos que se llamaban a sí mismos satánicos. No sólo por lo que hacían, sino por la manía que tenían de achacárselo todo al Infierno. Se les ocurría alguna ide...
The end of times? said Nanny. Look, Tiff, Esme tol' me to say, if you want to see Esmerelda Weatherwax, then just you look around. She is here. Us witches don't mourn for very long. We are satisfied w...
What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would,...
where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom* *Made it upand extrapolated from associated sources...
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