He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.
He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine...
He couldn’t help remembering how much he’d wanted a puppy when he was a little boy. Mind you, they’d been starving – anything with meat on it would have done.
Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
Granny turned slowly in her seat to look at the audience. They were staring at the performance, their faces rapt. The words washed over them in the breathless air. This was real. This was more real ev...
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them - when she thought about them at all – as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put m...
Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else...
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought. And because the theater was fiction made flesh, she hated the theat...
Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.
Gentlemen, please, said the Patrician. He shook his head. Let’s have no fighting, please. This is, after all, a council of war.
Fixing things together. Empathy and cooperation – good Buddhist principles, by the way. Fixing a flawed creation so that it can nurture life and mind, for ever – even beyond the end of time, perhaps.
First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts althou...
Everything is magic when you don’t know what it is. Your sliding rule is a magic wand to most people.
Every organization needs at least one person who knows what's going on, and why it's happening, and who's doing it.
Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.
Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.
Don’t trust the cannibal just ’cos he’s usin’ a knife and fork!
Don’t get your knickers in a knot just yet, Tiff,’ she said briskly. ‘It won’t solve anything an’ will just make you walk odd.
Don't you want to die nobly for a just cause?I'd much rather live quietly for one.
Don't you understand? snarled Rincewind. We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!Can't we do anything about it?No!Then I can't see the sense in panicking, said Twoflower calmly.