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“OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A. M. FOR?”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.”

Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”

Terry Pratchett

“When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.”

Terry Pratchett book Mort

Source: Mort

“People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

“I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!”

Terry Pratchett book Monstrous Regiment

Source: Monstrous Regiment

“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.”

Terry Pratchett book Men at Arms

Source: Men at Arms

“Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.”

Terry Pratchett book Unseen Academicals

Source: Unseen Academicals

“His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.”

Terry Pratchett

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

“It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.”

Terry Pratchett book Reaper Man

Source: Reaper Man

“Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.”

Terry Pratchett

“One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods