People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.
People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.
Only Granny Weatherwax really knew Granny Weatherwax.
On the other hand the Nac Mac Feegle were always looking for a fight, in a cheerful sort of way, and when they had no one to fight they fought one another, and if one was all by himself he’d kick his...
Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it...
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that reli...
Nevertheless, it bothered Vimes, even though he'd got really good at the noises and would go up against any man in his rendition of the HRUUUGH! But is this a book for a city kid? When would ever hea...
Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.
Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!
Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with er. Drunker. that was it.
Legitimate First watched them go as they walked away. Sergeant Colon felt he was being measured up.I've always wondered about his name, said Nobby, turning and waving. I mean...Legitimate?Can't blame...
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.
It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.
It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren't the people the people who made up the phrase people are people everywhere had traditionally thought of as...
It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expect...
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one brief moment of inspiration. There's a lot of spadework...
Is It Frightening To Be Free?You said it.You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?Seems to be a major human activity, yes.
In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language.
I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should