Sir, said the guard from behind me. I'd appreciate it if you left your club here.I paused and looked over my shoulder, He had a gun. His hand wasn't exactly resting on it, but he'd tucked his thumb in...
Peabody may not have seen the man turn into a grizzly, but he was bright enough to know that Injun Joe was getting set to adjust another relative ass-to-ears ratio.
Oh, good grief, said Vimes. Look, it's quite simple, man. I was expected to go At last, alcohol!, and chugalug the lot without thinking. Then some respectable pillars of the community - he removed the...
Maybe I hadn't been a big dating success because I was a boring person, but possibly it had been because I had limited tolerance for all this preliminary maneuvering and signal reading. - Aurora
I thought dwarfs gold, said Angua.They just say that to get it into bed.
Colon looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection.
We try to make guests feel welcome, said Dee, scuttling behind his desk. He pulled off his pointed hat and, to Vimes's amazement, put on a pair of thick smoked glasses.You had papers? he said. Vimes h...
Two uniformed trolls were standing in front of Sergeant Colon's high desk, with a slightly smaller troll between them. This troll was wearing a slightly downcast expression. It was also wearing a tutu...
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
Lawn looked down at his patient. In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
I admit, Morgan said with another withering look, it's no donut.
He did not like me and I did not like him, though I tried harder than he to conceal my dislike.
The boldest of the three moved suddenly, grabbed Angua and pulled her upright. We walk out of here unharmed or the girl gets it, all right? he snarled.Someone sniggered.I hope you're not going to kill...
Another priest said,Is it true you've said you'll believe in any god whose existence can be proved by logical debate?Yes.Vimes had a feeling about the immediate future and took a few steps away from D...
We need to borrow your boat, said Vimes.Bugger off!I'm choosing to believe that was a salty nautical expression meaning 'Why, certainly,' said Vimes.
Vimes woke in damp and utter darkness with sand under his cheek. Some parts of his body reported for duty, others protested that they had a note from their mother.
Sacharissa saw a movement. Boddony had pulled his axe out from under the bench. It was a traditional dwarf axe. One side was a pickaxe, for the extraction of interesting minerals, and the other side w...
Just a minute, said Lobsang. Who you? Time has stopped, the world is given over to...fairy tales and monsters, and there's a walking around?Best kind of person to have, said Susan. We don't like sil...
And, er, these stories about you...Oh, all true. Most of them. A bit of exaggeration, but mostly true.The one about the Citadel in Muntab and the Pash and the fish bone?Oh, yes.But how did you get in...
Lord Vetinari considered the sentence, and found it good. He liked 'tincture' particularly. Tincture. Tincture. It was a distinguished word, and pleasantly countered by the flatness of 'soup'. Yes. In...