When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.
She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.
Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart.
You were the kind of kid who couldn’t see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.
Look, that’s why there’s rules, understand? So that you think before you break ’em.
Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn’t mean to say she approved of it.
Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.
Seeing things a human shouldn’t have to see makes us human.
In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.
When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.
Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.
Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat.
Preston, I don’t think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.
One day I’ll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you’ll be in trouble.
Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.
They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man’s mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.
And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth.
And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man’s got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That’s oppression, that is. If I’m not under the heel of the oppressor, I don’t know who is.
If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.