You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant. You mean the sledgehammer,… — 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
Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. 'The Lord of the Rings' is intensely... landscaped. But 'Discworld' is about dialogue, which is one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind." "Oh, no! You think so?" "Yes." "But... no... you can't be right. Because… — 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
Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They… — 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
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
All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When you stand between two mirrors you're spread out among the images, your whole soul is pulled out thin, and somewhere in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days'… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way… — 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
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You are not apprehensive, are you? I can't detect no trace of fear none whatsoever Roomy cranium all possible videos of all possible outcomes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
