You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your… — 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
Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought. — 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