There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do. — 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
Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way. — 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
I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf, And me an'… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you… — 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
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you… — 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
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
The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in… — 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
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 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
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
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is… — 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
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the… — 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
Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in… — 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
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. — 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
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
... 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
For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You are not apprehensive, are you? I can't detect no trace of fear none whatsoever Roomy cranium all possible videos of all possible outcomes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
