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  • Terry Pratchett Quote #1

    Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.


  • Terry Pratchett Quote #2

    Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #3

    After all, if you can't trust governments, whom can you trust?

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #4

    After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #5

    Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #6

    All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #7

    All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #8

    All right, said Susan. I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.

    REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

    Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—

    YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

    So we can believe the big ones?

    YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

    They're not the same at all!

    YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

    Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—

    MY POINT EXACTLY.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #9

    ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOMEDAY. LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS.

    Death took a step backwards.

    It was impossible to read expression in Azrael's features.

    Death glanced sideways at the servants.

    LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #10

    Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #11

    Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #12

    Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?'
    'Er...yes.'
    'But he's not actually thinking?'
    'Er...no.'
    'So...he just gives the impression of thinking but really it's just a show?'
    'Er...yes.'
    Just like everyone else, then really,' said Ridcully

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #13

    And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master.
    Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers!

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #14

    And Dil was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed anymore.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #15

    And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”
    Death sighed. No, he said... there’s just me.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #16

    And he read Principles of Accounting all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #17

    And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is me?

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #18

    And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say 'Yonder is...zer castle' a volf would be bound to howl mournfully. In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #19

    And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally showed more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #20

    And now the birds were singing overhead, and there was a soft rustling in the undergrowth, and all the sounds of the forest that showed that life was still being lived blended with the souls of the dead in a woodland requiem.
    The whole forest now sang for Granny Weatherwax.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #21

    And one day Amber takes her troll’s dinner down to the cave and finds him—” Rock waved his hands in vague yet thoroughly descriptive motions “—with another lady troll. So she go home and get her club and come back and beat him to death, thump, thump, thump. ’Cos he was her troll and he done her wrong. Is very romantic song.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #22

    And people think she killed him? said Miss Tick. She sighed. They probably think she cooked him in the oven, or something.

    They never actually said, said Tiffany. But I think it was something like that, yes.

    And did his horse turn up? said Miss Tick.

    No, said Tiffany. And that was strange, because if it'd turned up anywhere along the hills, people would have noticed it...

    Miss Tick folded her hands, sniffed, and smiled a smile with no humor in it.

    Easily explained, she said. Mrs. Snapperly must have had a really big oven, eh?

    No, it was really quite small, said Tiffany. Only ten inches deep.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #23

    And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #24

    And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow and heavy with the silt of the plains, and by the time it got to The Shades even an agnostic could have walked across it. It was hard to drown in the Ankh, but easy to suffocate.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #25

    And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
    As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #26

    And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #27

    And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #28

    And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly by means of the usual glowing stare and deep-throated growl, which had always worked on the damned in the past. This time they had earned him a whack on the nose that had made his eyes water. Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls. He was looking forward to a further cat experiment, which he planned would consist of jumping around and yapping excitedly at it. It was a long shot, but it just might work.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #29

    And what would humans be without love?
    RARE, said Death.

  • Terry Pratchett Quote #30

    And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

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