Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remain...
The wizards held that, as servants of a higher truth, they were not subject to the mundane laws of the city. The Patrician said that, indeed, this was the case, but they would bloody well pay their ta...
I've been given something for a while, and the price of it is that I have to give it back.
There were people who called themselves Satanists who made Crowley squirm. It wasn't just the things they did, it was the way they blamed it all on Hell. They'd come up with some stomach-churning idea...
I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.
People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.
There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell.
I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.
Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.
When he was a boy he'd read books about great military campaigns, and visited the museums and looked with patriotic pride at the paintings of famous cavalry charges, last stands and glorious victories...
She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.
There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.
The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.
No point in imagining anything, said Granny. Things are bad enough as they are.
Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we’d been at all competent.
The Library didn’t only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane i...
Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.
A dwarf who can't get the hang of metal? That must be pretty unique.Pretty rare, sir. But I was quite good at alchemy..Guild member?Not any more, sir.Oh? How did you leave the guild?Through the roof,...
There was a bird whistle as Polly neared the hiding place. She identified this one as the sound of the Very Bad Bird Impersonator…
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