An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Anyway, lots of warrior tribes think that when they die, they go to a heavenly land somewhere," said the toad. "You know,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home… — 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
They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of… — 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
They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops,… — 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