Vimes woke in damp and utter darkness with sand under his cheek. Some parts of his body reported for duty, others protested that they had a note from their mother.
Truth is female, since truth is beauty rather than handsomeness; this, Ridcully reflected as the council grumbled in, would certainly explain the saying that a lie could run around the world before Tr...
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...
This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.
Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.
They'd come here to spoon and, on one memorable occasion, fork.
The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out.
Taint what a horse looks like, it’s what a horse be.
Sacharissa saw a movement. Boddony had pulled his axe out from under the bench. It was a traditional dwarf axe. One side was a pickaxe, for the extraction of interesting minerals, and the other side w...
Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.
Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.
Now if seen him, really there, really alive, it'd be in me like a fever. If I thought there was some god who really did care two hoots about people, who watched 'em like a father and cared for 'em li...
Now ... if you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get beaten by people who spent time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goo...
Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it c...
Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench.
Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.
Just a minute, said Lobsang. Who you? Time has stopped, the world is given over to...fairy tales and monsters, and there's a walking around?Best kind of person to have, said Susan. We don't like sil...
It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unus...
It's still magic even if you know how it's done.