You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world? said Ginger, not paying him the least attention. It’s all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they’r...
You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.
You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have...
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and gi...
You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.
You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in...
Writing stays. It fastens words down. A man can speak his mind and some nasty wee scuggan will write it down and who knows what he’ll do with those words? Ye might as weel nail a man’s shadow tae the...
Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five...
William groaned. It was Vimes. Worse, he was smiling, in a humourless predatory way.Ah, Mr de Worde, he said, stepping inside. There are several thousand dogs stampeding through the city at the moment...
Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything…
Whut's the plan, Rob? said one of them. Okay, lads, this is what we'll do. As soon as we see somethin', we'll attack it. Right?This caused a cheer.Ach, 'tis a good plan, said Daft Wullie.
Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.
When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.
When in doubt, choose to live.
When Mr. Aching had worked for the old Baron, they had, as men of the world, reached a sensible arrangement, which was that Mr. Aching would do whatever the Baron asked him to do. Provided the Baron a...
When I am old I shall wear midnight.
What’s this here, he said suspiciously, about us got to give you faggots?Oh, we have to have them, said Newt, We burn them.Say what?
What’s Ephebe like? said Ptraci.I’ve never been there. Apparently it’s ruled by a Tyrant.I hope we don’t meet him, thenTeppic shook his head. It’s not like that, he said. They have a new Tyrant every...
What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
What is magic?Then there is the witches' explanation, which comes in two forms, depending on the age of the witch. Older witches hardly put words to it at all, but may suspect in their hearts that the...