I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing. Terry Pratchett More Quotes by Terry Pratchett More Quotes From Terry Pratchett I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that. Terry Pratchett drinkingbeerthinking It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines. Terry Pratchett minesraincountry Man just went past with a cat on his head. Terry Pratchett catmenpast I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE. Terry Pratchett maygivingpast Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying. Terry Pratchett booklyingreality You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality. Terry Pratchett heartlessdragonseye You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.” “Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “There. Happy now? That’s what Miss Tick thinks. But it’s happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back.” “Why?” “There’s no one to stop them.” There was silence for a moment. “There’s me,” said Tiffany. Terry Pratchett silencehere-i-amthinking It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane. Terry Pratchett ignoredstrangewonderful Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen. Terry Pratchett thirteenterriblechildren They say that there can never be two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but has anyone checked lately? Terry Pratchett snowflaketwo You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so. Terry Pratchett cleversweetbaby Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad. Terry Pratchett fruit-saladonionsfeelings Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that. Terry Pratchett dungeonsnightpeople This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one. Terry Pratchett magicjobslooks There’s no point in believing in things that exist. Terry Pratchett small-godsno-pointbelieve The universe was bad enough without people poking it. Terry Pratchett universeenoughpeople Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity. Terry Pratchett kitchenrockscat But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told. Terry Pratchett knowsthinking Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead. Terry Pratchett witchwickedhot They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered. No one ever asks them if they want to. This book is dedicated to those fine men. Terry Pratchett heromenbook
