One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me. — 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
It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I… — 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
Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way… — 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
Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You… — 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
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