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“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 book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music

“We cannae just rush in, ye ken."
"Point o' order, Big Man. Yejust rush in. Wejust rush in."
"Aye, Big Yan, point well made. But ye gotta knowye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'.”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

“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.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

“The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“Oh, always all right. You remember that. We happen to other people.
-Nanny Ogg”

Terry Pratchett book Carpe Jugulum

Source: Carpe Jugulum

“It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

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

“Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.”

Terry Pratchett Thud!

Source: Thud!

“I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.”

Terry Pratchett book Mort

Source: Mort

“Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“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 book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music

“Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Color of Magic

“Hell needed horribly bright, self-centered people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage”

Terry Pratchett book Eric

Source: Eric

“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.”

Terry Pratchett book Feet of Clay

Source: Feet of Clay

“Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

“It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it’s goin’ on aboot!”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn’t a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.”

Terry Pratchett book Interesting Times

Source: Interesting Times

“I assure you I will not kill you," said Inigo.
"I know that," said Vimes. "But will you try?”

Terry Pratchett book The Fifth Elephant

Source: The Fifth Elephant

“The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.”

Terry Pratchett book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music