“Perhaps more importantly, the ants used all the sugar lumps they could steal to build a small sugar pyramid in one of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I expect you know what this is, don’t you?” Rincewind stared down at the box. It had a round glass eye protruding… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But this didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But can’t you just wave your hand and make all the dirt fly away, then?" [...] "That works, but only if you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.' — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But there's magic too. You'll pick that up. It don't take much intelligence, otherwise wizards wouldn't be able to do it.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with. — 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
Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that… — 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
“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
