It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.
I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.
This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It’s the other way around.
She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.
There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can’t take it any more.
The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.
The second mouse gets the cheese!
Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.
The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.
Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.
Everything is a test.
So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn’t received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.
Oh, there’s plenty of reasons. I just don’t know which one.
They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.
He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.
You can think and you can fight, but the world’s always movin’, and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.
Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn’t the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn’t know the position of anywhere else.
There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.