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“There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.”

Terry Pratchett book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music

“Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect.”

Terry Pratchett book Wintersmith

Source: Wintersmith

“Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.”

Terry Pratchett book Men at Arms

Source: Men at Arms

“Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath…”

Terry Pratchett book Going Postal

Source: Going Postal

“Tiffany thought of the little spot in the woods where Granny Weatherwax lay. Remembered.

And knew that You had been right. Granny Weatherwax was indeed here. And there. She was, in fact, and always would be, everywhere.”

Terry Pratchett book The Shepherd's Crown

Source: The Shepherd's Crown

“The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“Everything is a test.”

Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

“There was no universe, anywhere, where a Sam Vimes would give in on this, because if he did then he wouldn't be Sam Vimes anymore.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“Quick, someone's coming! Look real!”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

“Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.”

Terry Pratchett book Making Money

Source: Making Money

“It was a nice day.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“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.”

Terry Pratchett book Reaper Man

Source: Reaper Man

“All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.”

Terry Pratchett book The Fifth Elephant

Source: The Fifth Elephant

“Fate can be one mean god at times.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Color of Magic

“Look, sir, I know Angua. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that.”

Terry Pratchett book Jingo

Source: Jingo

“The commander went, as they say in Ankh-Morpork, totally Librarian on them.”

Terry Pratchett book Raising Steam

Source: Raising Steam

“They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

“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.”

Terry Pratchett book Snuff

Source: Snuff

“Romancin’ is verra important, ye ken. Basically it’s a way the boy can get close to the girl wi’oot her attackin’ him and scratchin’ his eyes oot.”

Terry Pratchett book Wintersmith

Source: Wintersmith

“Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.”

Terry Pratchett book The Last Continent

Source: The Last Continent