“That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam. "Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone’s going to get stung and you don’t care.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Where do you think they've gone?' he said. 'Where what?' said Lady Ramkin, temporarily halted. 'The dragons. You know. Errol and his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The important thing is not to shout at this point, Vimes told himself. Do not…what do they call it…go postal? Treat this… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“…but young Sam was watching him, across thirty years. When we break down, it all breaks down. That’s just how it works.… — 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