Supposing there was justice for all, after all? For every unheeded beggar, every harsh word, every neglected duty, every slight... every choice... Because that was the point, wasn't it? You had to cho...
Suddenly there was a humming in the air, and the bees were there too. They flowed out of Granny Weatherwax’s hive, circling Tiffany like a halo, crowning her, and swarm and girl stood on the threshold...
Stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.
Stanley always followed the rules. All sorts of things could go wrong if you didn't. So far he'd done 1:Upon Discovery of the Fire, Remain Calm.Now he'd come to 2: Shout 'Fire!' in a Loud, Clear Voice...
Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God.That's what my grandmother used to say, said Brutha automatically.Indeed? I would like to know mor...
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...
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.
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
She folded her arms and then shouted, Right you thieving scunners! How dare you steal Miss Treason's funeral meats!Oh, waily, waily, it's the foldin' o' the arms, the foooldin' o' the aaaarmss! cried...
She couldn't do any worse, but then, he couldn't do better. So maybe it balanced out.
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.
People like that don't need a reason apart from because I can. They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.
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...
Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light...
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.
One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who...
One lifetime isn't enoughOH I DON'T KNOWHmmm?WINDLE POONS?Yes?THAT WAS YOUR LIFEAnd with great relief and general optimism, and a feeling that on the whole everything could have been much worse, Windl...
Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.
Not long ago I was invited to a librarians’ event by a lady who cheerfully told me, We like to think of ourselves as ‘information providers.’ I was appalled by this want of ambition; I made my excuses...