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...
YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.So we can believe the big ones?YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.
People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to b...
Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.
Luck came to those who left a space for it.
No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.
A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.
And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, w...
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there wh...
Just because a woman’s got no teeth doesn’t mean she’s wise. It might just mean she’s been stupid for a very long time.
Science is not interested in what stands to reason.
The gods help those who help themselves, and my word, didn't I help myself.
A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a dr...
I told her we were going to get married, and all she could talk about was frogs.She said there's these hills where it's hot and rains all the time, and in the rainforests there are these very tall tre...
Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn't know how not to turn people into them. And big pink balloons...
I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts, said Brutha. That way, everyone's happy.
Can you swim? said Victor. One of the cavern's rotting pillars crashed down behind them. From the pit itself came a terrible wailing. Not very well, said Ginger. Me neither, he said. The commotion beh...
There was a wicked ole witch once called Black Aliss. She was an unholy terror. There's never been one worse or more powerful. Until now. Because I could spit in her eye and steal her teeth, see. Beca...
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