The trouble with witches is that they’ll never run away from things they really hate.And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them’s a mongoose.
The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday whi...
The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky j...
The young man is also an idealist. He has yet to find out that what’s in the public interest is not what the public is interested in.
There is a curse.They say:May you live in interesting times.
There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong.
There was no universe, anywhere, where a Sam Vimes would give in on this, because if he did then he wouldn't be Sam Vimes anymore.
There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.
There will be justice, said Brutha. If there is no justice, there is nothing.
There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’‘It’s a lot more comp...
There’s no point in believing in things that exist.
They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!
They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh be...
They say that there can never be two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but has anyone checked lately?
They say this fruit be like unto the world / So sweet. Or like, say I, the heart of man / So red without and yet within, unclue’d / We find the worm, the rot, the flaw. / However glows his bloom the b...
They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed the...
This is Morbidia, said Vlad. Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.
This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.
Thunder rolled . . It rolled a six.
To be frank, I thought you were going to marry the princess.'Mort blushed. 'We talked about it,' he said. 'Then we thought, just because you happen to rescue a princess, you shouldn't rush into things...
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