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
There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the… — 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
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
I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for. — 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
I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He's bound to have done something ,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician's view of crime and punishment. If… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case,… — 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
They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year… — 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. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted. — 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
