Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter.How’d you know all that?I just trod on ‘im.
Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint w...
Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave,' said Vorbis.'So I understand,' said the Tyrant. 'I imagine that fish have no word for water.
She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.
She prowled the city on moonlit nights, and OK, there was the occasional chicken, but she always remembered where she'd been and went round the next day to shove some money under the door. It was hard...
She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in thei...
She felt better for all that. A good shouting at somebody always makes you feel better and in control, especially if you aren't.
Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.
SEE! I HAVE TIME. AT LAST, I HAVE TIMEAlbert backed away nervously.‘And now that you have it, what are you going to do with it?’ he said.Death mounted his horse.I AM GOING TO SPEND IT.
Rincewind tried shutting his eyes, but there were no eyelids to his imagination and it was staring widely
Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.
Quick, someone's coming! Look real!
Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection.
Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expre...
Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow, make sense.
People whose wishes get granted often don't turn out to be very nice people.
People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.
People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. Crowley had thought about this for some time and, around about 1023, had said, Hang on, that...
Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.