Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you c...
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or ho...
Everything is magic when you don’t know what it is. Your sliding rule is a magic wand to most people.
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave...
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.
Don't you want to die nobly for a just cause?I'd much rather live quietly for one.
Don't start weaving a social hypothesis in front of an angry woman holding a blade.
Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?Yes, said the wizard bitterly, us.
Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every blade of grass? Yes. You do. You call it 'opening your eyes again.' But you do it for a moment. We have done it for eternity. No sleep,...
Demons have existed on the Discworld for at least as long as the gods, who in many ways they closely resemble. The difference is basically the same as that between terrorists and freedom fighters.
Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.Treatle: I...
Crowley had always known that he would be around when the world ended, because he was immortal and wouldn’t have any alternative. But he hoped it was a long way off. Because he rather liked people. It...
Coppers were always outnumbered, so being a copper only worked when people let it work. If they refocused and realized you were just another standard idiot with a pennyworth of metal for a badge, you...
Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.
Certain things have to happen before other things. Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board, and look all over the place for the dice.
Captain Roberts went to Heaven, which wasn't everything that he'd expected, and as the receding water gently marooned the wreck of the on the forest floor, only one soul was left alive. Or possibly t...
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.[...]By the stinking of my nose, something wicked this way goes[.][...]By the blinking of my eyes, something wicked this way dies.
But we don't do things like that! said Vimes. You can't go around arresting the Thieves' Guild. I mean, we'd be at it all day!
But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.
But it’s what I call The Valley Filled with Clouds technique. You’re at the edge of the valley, and there is a church steeple, and there is a tree, and there is a rocky outcrop, but the rest of it is...