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“I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.”

Source: The Wee Free Men

“You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.”

Terry Pratchett book Johnny and the Bomb

Source: Johnny and the Bomb

“Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.”

Terry Pratchett book The Last Hero

Source: The Last Hero

“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“Yes! I'm! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

“Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

“Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.”

Terry Pratchett book Moving Pictures

Source: Moving Pictures

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

Terry Pratchett book The Truth

Source: The Truth

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

“Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Color of Magic

“Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

“Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”

Terry Pratchett book The Fifth Elephant

Source: The Fifth Elephant

“I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns,… broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J. K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

“The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

“Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.”

Terry Pratchett book The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic