This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes… — 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
People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained… — 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
Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just… — 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
If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to… — 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