My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure, said Carrot.Really? Well, there's eleven of them.
No-one likes being told it's their lucky day. That sort of thing does not bode well. When someone tells you it's your lucky day, something bad is about to happen.
Nor had he, as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe in something, since he recognized that belief was the lifebelt that got most peop...
Not craftsmen, my lord he said. I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible
Not natural, in my view, sah. Not in favor of unnatural things.'Vetinari looked perplexed. 'You mean, you eat your meat raw and sleep in a tree?
Now consider the tortoise and the eagle. The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without being under it. Its horizons are a few inches away. It has about a...
Now, as Crowley would be the first to protest, most demons weren’t deep down evil. In the great cosmic game they felt they occupied the same position as tax inspectors—doing an unpopular job, maybe, b...
Occasionally he would very nearly swear.
Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.
Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.
Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.
Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.
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...
People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter follows summer. It was not a wrong thing. There were tears, of course, but they were for those who were left; those...
People whose wishes get granted often don't turn out to be very nice people.
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.
Ponder and his fellow students watched Hex carefully.'It can't just, you know, stop,' said Adrian 'Mad Drongo' Tumipseed.'The ants are just standing still,' said Ponder. He sighed. 'All right, put the...
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...
Quick, someone's coming! Look real!
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