And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I get up Aching, and I go to bed Aching,' she whispered to herself, smiling. One of her father's jokes, and she… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is… — 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
“Behind her, Preston grunted and said, "I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. — 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