Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.
Are you staying with us? It could be dangerous,' said William, realizing that he was saying this to a vampire iconographer who undied every time he took a picture.
There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse's hooves: If one of the horse's hooves...
The four lesser apocalyptical horsemen of Panic, Bewilderment, Ignorance, and Shouting took control of the room,
Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between. This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws! In my human mouth I h...
Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the fi...
It was the kind of storm that suggests the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic.
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only...
They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about poor people, it was simply because poor people had no m...
He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about...
And he won her freedom by playing beautiful music,' Roland added. 'I think he played a lute. Or maybe it was a lyre.''Ach, weel, that'll suit us fine,' said Daft Wullie. 'We're experts at lootin' an'...
Why are our people going out there, said Mr. Boggis of the Thieves’ Guild.Because they are showing a brisk pioneering spirit and seeking wealth and … additional wealth in a new land, said Lord Vetinar...
Behind her, Preston grunted and said, I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!Tiffany, trying to get her shattered thoughts together, muttered, My mothe...
And in this doleful mood he ventured to wonder if they ever thought back to when things were just old-fangled or not fangled at all as against the modern day when fangled had reached its apogee. Fangl...
Freedom without limits is just a word.
Humans need fantasy to be human.
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strang...
The man gave Dodger a cursory glance that had quite a lot of curse in it.
That's a nice song, said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song, he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels. , thought Vimes, As I rec...
Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o'clocks in one day.