Susan says, don’t get afraid, get angry.
When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow’s-point- of-view is seldom necessary.
Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.
In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?
The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.
I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.
The world is a globe – the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.
Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like ‘What is my purpose in life?’ very quickly lacked both.
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape’s eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.
On the Disc, the Gods aren’t so much worshipped, as they are blamed.
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.
People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.
Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.
Of course I’m sane, when trees start talking to me, I don’t talk back.
All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.
Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.
The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
Mr Lipwig, there’s a lady in the hall to see you and we’ve thanked her for not smoking three times and she’s still doing it!