I hate cats." Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man! — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away. — 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
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
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
Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the… — 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
