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 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.
Crowley (An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards)
But she was too big to be a thief, too honest to be an assassin, too intelligent to be a wife, and too proud to enter the only other female profession generally available.
Between every rational moment were a billion irrational ones.
Believe it. That was the way. Never stop believing. Fool the eye, fool the brain.
Barbarism? Hah! When we kills people we do it there and then, lookin' 'em in the eye, and we'd be happy to buy 'em a drink in the next world, no harm done. I never knew a barbarian who cut up people s...
Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to a...
And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.
And personalities define themselves in terms of other personalities.
And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: Psst!
And Tiffany knew that if a witch started thinking of anyone as anything, that would be the first step on a well-worn path that could lead to, oh, to poisoned apples, spinning wheels, and a too-small...
All libraries, everywhere, are connected by the bookworm holes in space created by the strong space-time distortions found around any large collections of books. Only a very few librarians learn the s...
All around him people were eating their unfood wih, if not actual evidence of enjoyment, then with no more actual disgust than was to be found in burger chains all over the planet. He stood up, took h...
All across the multiverse there are backward tribes* who distrust mirrors and images because, they say, they steal a bit of a person's soul and there's only so much of a person to go around. And the p...
Ah, said Mr Pin. Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens. He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang s...
AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON! which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the st...
A witch didn't do things because they seemed a good idea at the time! That was practically cackling. You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unplea...
A philosopher might have deplored this lack of mental ambition, but only if he was about where his next meal was coming from.In fact Lancre's position and climate bred a hard-headed and straightforwa...
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.