The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look strange because you have no teeth. It was enough to be called a witch. If it came to...
The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting.
The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
Strength enough to build a home,
Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.
Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal.Isn't that man your butler? said Ahmed.Yes.One of your soldiers said he bit a man's nose off.Vimes shrugged...
Personal isn't the same as important.
Perhaps that's why men did it. You didn't do it to save duchesses, or countries. You killed the enemy to stop him killing your mates, that they in turn might save you ...
People said there had to be a Supreme Being because otherwise how could the universe exist, eh?And of course there clearly had to be, said Koomi, a Supreme Being. But since the universe was a bit of a...
Old terror crouched in the shadows. It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees. It was the terror of...
OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?
Now, there is a tendency at a point like this to look over one’s shoulder at the cover artist and start going on at length about leather, tightboots and naked blades.Words like ‘full’, ‘round’ and eve...
Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough.
Not much call for a barbarian hairdresser, I expect,' said Rincewind. 'I mean, no-one wants a shampoo-and-beheading.
Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.
Mr Vimes, said Mrs Winkings, ve cannot help but notice that you still haf not employed any of our members in the Vatch...Say 'Watch', why don't you? Vimes thought. I know you can. Let the twenty-third...
Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing...
Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.
Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.
Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir,’ said Carrot‘What, in Ankh-Morpork?’‘Yes, sir.’‘We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value