The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“His granny taught him to read, see. I reckon it overheated his mind.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He remembered his mind feeling as cold as ice and limitless as the night sky.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It was no secret that the most highly balanced minds sometimes, well, overbalanced.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Brutha tried to put it out of his mind, which was like trying to empty a bucket underwater.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He was up against a mind that regarded truth as a reference point but certainly not as a shackle.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts that made… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“They’re always telling folk how much better it’s going to be when they’re dead. We tell them it could be pretty good… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into… — 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
“Dead?' said Rincewind. In the debating chamber of his mind a dozen emotions got to their feet and started shouting. Relief was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your… — 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
“Right,' he said uncertainty. His mind was grinding through the problem. She was a witch. Just lately there'd been a lot of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Dodger made haste towards the house of the Mayhews while in his mind he saw the cheerful face and hooked nose of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every blade of grass? Yes. You do. You call… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“What is magic? Then there is the witches' explanation, which comes in two forms, depending on the age of the witch. Older… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“His heart’s in the right place, mind,” said Lezek, carefully. “Ah. ’Course, ’tis the rest of him that isn’t.” — 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
“The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The thought had crossed his mind, only very fast and looking nervously from side to side in case it got knocked over.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things… — 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
