“When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am of course delighted and honoured and,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Repent!’” Nanny Ogg went on. “Repent? Me? Cheek! I can’t start repenting at my time of life. I’d never get any work… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There had been a time when the continents were different, Rincewind understood, and then they'd sort of shuffled more comfortably together like… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.” “Another world is colliding with this… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I thought we used to kill rats?" he said, as if he wasn't quite certain anymore. "Yes, but you see, sir, this… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There was something else I was trying to say,’ said Rincewind, letting go of the hand. He looked blank for a moment,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A old man once told me "you live and you learn". We'll I've learnt that the blade sword is infinite, I've also… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Vimes thought for a moment and said, 'Well, dear, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a lot of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it came to Death, they ticked… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were times when the world did not need policemen, because what it really did need was for somebody who knew what… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“After you’d known Christine for any length of time, you found yourself fighting a desire to look into her ear to see… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“At times like this it's traditional that a hero comes forth," said the President of the Guild of Assassins. "A dragon slayer.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He savoured the moment. He’d like to take this moment and press it carefully in a big book, so that when he… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“SEE! I HAVE TIME. AT LAST, I HAVE TIME Albert backed away nervously. ‘And now that you have it, what are you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You fight a war to change the world, and it changes into a world with no place in it for you, the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I mean you sound as if you want to die.” “There’s some things I shall miss,” she said. “But it gets thin,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always very nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There was, for example, the theory that A'Tuin had come from nowhere and would continue at a uniform crawl, or steady gait,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
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“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
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