Because the world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you looked at it through the bottom of a bottle.
Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it came to Death, they ticked the box marked Not Applicable. It might help to think of the universe as a...
The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.
Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if your ambitions included being an absolute ruler tomorrow. There were subtleties. Oh, you could order m...
She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?''I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that...
The Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in th...
Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust Mothers of Borogravia! and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust?Ver...
The harder I work, the luckier I become.
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your si...
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer...
But William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch would probably like it if everyone spent their time indoors, with their hands on the table wh...
The reaper does not listen to the harvest.
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
The nose is also the only organ that can see backwards in time.
Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.
There are the people of the day, and the creatures of the night. And it's important to remember that the creatures of the night aren't simply the people of the day staying up late because they think t...
It was always cheaper to build a new 33-MegaLith circle than upgrade an old slow one.
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