My name is immaterial,' she said.That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.
I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I m...
Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.
Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.
I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it...
One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!
She never sent the castle to sleep, said Granny, that’s just an old wife’s tale. She just stirred up time a little. It’s not as hard as people think, everyone does it all the time. It’s like rubber, i...
Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.
We try to make guests feel welcome, said Dee, scuttling behind his desk. He pulled off his pointed hat and, to Vimes's amazement, put on a pair of thick smoked glasses.You had papers? he said. Vimes h...
Insanity is catching.
Do you know how wizards like to be buried?Yes!Well, how?Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs.Reluctantly.
I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.
Progress just means bad things happen faster.
Tiffany got up early and lit the fires. When her mother came down, she was scrubbing the kitchen floor, very hard.Er…aren’t you supposed to do that sort of thing by magic, dear? said her mother, who’d...
Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature s...
Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'
Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?How could they live with it? And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only...
Strength enough to build a home,
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