Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination...
STARS EXPLODE, WORLDS COLLIDE, THERE'S HARDLY ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE HUMANS CAN LIVE WITHOUT BEING FROZEN OR FRIED, AND YET YOU BELIEVE THAT A... A BED IS A NORMAL THING. IT IS THE MOST AMAZIN...
Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the po...
Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.
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...
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.
Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.
Only Granny Weatherwax really knew Granny Weatherwax.
One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.
Omens were all very well, but sometimes it would help if people just wrote things down.
Oh, no, said the Lecturer in Recent Runes, pushing his chair back. Not that. That's meddling with things you don't understand.Well, we are wizards, said Ridcully. We're supposed to meddle in things we...
Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.
Occasionally he would very nearly swear.
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?
Not craftsmen, my lord he said. I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible
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.
No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvest...
Night, forever. But within it, a city, shadowy and only real in certain ways. The entity cowered in its alley, where the mist was rising. This could not have happened!Yet it had. The streets had fille...
My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure, said Carrot.Really? Well, there's eleven of them.
My first novel was published by the first publisher I sent it to. And so I’ve been learning as I go, and I find it now rather embarrassing that people beginning the Discworld series start with The Col...