There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who sa...
There was a sliding noise and a tinkle exactly like the tinkle a spoon makes when it’s put back among the other spoons, who have missed it and are anxious to hear its tales of life among the frighteni...
There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another--language was just there to hide their thoughts.
There was something about the eyes. It wasn’t the shape or the color. The was no evil glint. But there was…… a look. It was such a look that a microbe might encounter if it could see up from the botto...
There’s no a lot of laughs in an underworld. This one used to be called Limbo, ya ken, ’cause the door was verra low.
These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very bes...
They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.
They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people w...
They looked up. Someone with a face and apron that said ‘barman’ in seven hundred languages was standing over them, a wine jug in each hand.No women in here, he went on.Why not? said Nobby.No women as...
They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .
They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body t...
They sometimes forgot what happened if you let a pawn get all the way up the board.
They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt wa...
They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.
Think critically about what you are told. Do not accept the word of authority unthinkingly. Science is not a belief system: no belief system instructs you to question the system itself. Science does....
Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.
This is Lancre we’re talkin’ about. If we was men, we’d be talking about layin’ down our lives for the country. As women, we can talk about laying down.
This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.
This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalw...
Tiffany read the sign and smiled. Aha, she said. There was nothing to knock on, so she added Knock, knock in a louder voice. A woman’s voice from within said: Who’s there? Tiffany, said Tiffany. Tiffa...
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