The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“ Click. The salamander flared, etching the room with searing white light and dark shadows. Otto screamed. He fell to the floor,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“These were dangerous thoughts, he knew. They were the kind that crept up on a Watchman when the chase was over and… — 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
What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale… — 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
“The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The Octavo filled the room with a dull, sullen light, which wasn't strictly light at all but the opposite of light; darkness… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“If Vorbis was right, and there was a kind of light that made darkness visible, then down there was its opposite, the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“... darkness isn't the opposite of light, it is simply its absence, and what was radiating from the book was the light… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?' Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has… — 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
