“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“They hadn't read as many stories as Malicia, and were rather more attached to the experience of real life, which is that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Jesus won't cut you off before you're through With him you won't never get a crossed line, And when your bill comes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story." "And what if your… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Things that are back to front are often easier to comprehend if they are upside down as well. In life as in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Child, you’ve come here to learn what’s true and what’s not, but there’s little I can teach you that you don’t already… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters is that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything's changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and sudenlly you're going… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But at least the way was clear now. When you step off a cliff, your life takes a very definite direction.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Those who sought her never found her, yet she was known to come to the aid of those in greatest need. And,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Grandfather always got things wrong. He saw life from outside and never quite understood.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But a girl starting out in life might well say to herself: 'Is this it? You worked hard and denied yourself things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The demon coughed nervously. Demons do not breathe; however, every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — 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 am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image