It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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
London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.The Stealer of Souls, he said… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there 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. And this is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the… — 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
