It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.
I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.
I’m made up of the memories of my parents and grandparents, all my ancestors. They’re in the way I look, in the color of my hair. And I’m made up of everyone I’ve ever met who’s changed the way I thin...
I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.
Joshua, cynicism is the only reasonable response to the antics of humanity.
Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.
Legitimate First watched them go as they walked away. Sergeant Colon felt he was being measured up.I've always wondered about his name, said Nobby, turning and waving. I mean...Legitimate?Can't blame...
Listen, happy endings is fine if they turn out happy, said Granny, glaring at the sky. But you can’t make ’em for other people. Like the only way you could make a happy marriage is by cuttin’ their he...
Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits...
Miss Tick sniffed. 'You could say this advice is priceless,' she said. 'Are you listening?''Yes,' said Tiffany.'Good. Now ... if you trust in yourself ...''Yes?''... and believe in your dreams ...''Ye...
Mister Rob Anybody and sundry others? said one of the figures in a dreadful voice.There's naebody here o' that name! shouted Rob Anybody. We dinna know anythin'!We have here a list of criminal and civ...
Mistress Weatherwax is the head witch, then, is she?’'Oh no!’ said Miss Level, looking shocked. 'Witches are all equal. We don’t have things like head witches. That’s quite against the spirit of witch...
More than half the skill of writing lies in tricking the book out of your own head.
Mort remembered the woodcut in his grandmother’s almanack, between the page on planting times and the phases of the moon section, showing Dethe thee Great Levyller Comes To Alle Menne. He’d stared at...
Most of the members of the convent were old-fashioned Satanists, like their parents and grandparents before them. They'd been brought up to it, and weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly...
Most people, on waking up, accelerate through a quick panicky pre-consciousness check-up: who am I, where am I, who is he/she, good god, why am I cuddling a policeman's helmet, what happened last nigh...
Mrs. Earwig (pronounced Ar-wige, at least by Mrs. Earwig) believed in shiny wands, and magical amulets and mystic runes and the power of the stars, while Granny Weatherwax in cups of tea, dry biscuits...
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.
Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.
Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.
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