There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Tiffany jumped when she saw a balloon sail up above the trees, catch the wind, and swoop away, but it turned out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Mr Tulip raised a trembling hand. 'Is this the bit where my whole life passes in front of my eyes?' he said.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Life is addictive. If people complain overmuch, I think I will have to draw that fact to their attention.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erratically in all directions that the chances of any of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward? How could they live with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Lord Downey was an assassin. Or, rather, an Assassin. The capital letter was important. It separated those curs who went around murdering… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The Arrangement was very simple, so simple in fact that it didn’t really deserve the capital letter, which it had got for… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The Auditors avoided death by never going so far as to get a life. They strove to be as indistinguishable as hydrogen… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!" "Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few people.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The first words that are read by seekers of enlightenment in the secret, gong-banging, yeti-haunted valleys near the hub of the world,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He said to people: you’re free. And they said hooray, and then he showed them what freedom costs and they called him… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting… — 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
