I must confess the the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occured to him.
Sir Terry Pratchett
The wizards from Unseen University, being perhaps the intellectual cream or certainly the cerebral yogurt of their generation, passed through this stage in minutes.
The Last Continent
The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked.
Wyrd Sisters
THIS IS MOST IRREGULAR, said Death.
"We're sorry. It's not our fault."
HOW MANY OF YOU ARE THERE?
"More than 1300, I'm afraid."
VERY WELL, THEN. PLEASE FORM AN ORDERLY QUEUE.
๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐
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"We are vampires. We cannot help what we are."
"Only animals canโt help what they are," said Granny.
๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐จ๐ถ๐ญ๐ถ๐ฎ
"Are you all right, O jeweled master of the sun?" one of them ventured.
"No, I'm not," snapped the king, who was having some of his basic assumptions about the universe severely rattled, and that never puts anyone in a good mood.
๐๐๐ป๐ช๐ถ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ผ
"Well, I just...I thought...well, I just thought youโd be teaching me more, thatโs all."
"Iโm teaching you things all the time," said Lu-Tze. "You might not be learning them, of course."
๐ฃ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฎ
Granny slapped her hands together like the crack of doom. "Right! Let's do some good!" she said, to the universe at large.
๐๐ข๐ด๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ
And this was diplomacy, too, he thought, when you let your mouth chatter away while you watched peopleโs eyes. Itโs just like being a copper.
๐ป๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
It's tangled, but it ain't twisted.
๐๐ข๐ด๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ
Ridcullyโs eyes twinkled behind the smoke and, not for the first time, Ponder suspected that the man was sometimes rather cleverer than he appeared. It would not be hard.
๐ฏ๐ฝ๐ ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐พ๐๐๐๐
"When you really need them the most," he said, "million-to-one chances always crop up. Well-known fact."
๐ฎ๐๐๐๐
๐! ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐
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People healed, books didn't.
๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐
An immortal has a great deal to remember. Sometimes itโs better to put things where they will be safe.
๐ฏ๐ฝ๐พ๐๐ป ๐๐ป ๐ฏ๐พ๐๐
The Watch was back and out there on the streets, and if they weren't actually as good as Detritus at kicking arse they were definitely prodding buttock.
๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ญ๐ข๐บ
"Well, when I was a lad," said Truckle, "if you wanted to get a girlโs intโrest, you had to cut off your worst enemyโs wossname and present it to her."
"Whut"
"I SAID YOU HAD TO CUT OFF YOUR WORST ENEMYโS WOSSNAME AND PRESENT IT TO HER!"
๐ฏ๐ฝ๐ ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐
"I've never seen Death actually at work."
"Not many have," said Albert. "Not twice, at any rate."
๐๐ธ๐ป๐ฝ
"But you hate godmothers, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs. Gogol.
"We're the other kind," said Granny. "We're the kind that gives people what they know they really need, not what we think they ought to want."
๐๐ช๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ
"If you're going to suggest I try dropping twenty feet down a pitch dark tower in the hope of hitting a couple of greasy little steps which might not even still be there, you can forget it," said Rincewind sharply.
The Light Fantastic
Rincewind stared at the badge. Heโd never had one before. Well, that was technically a lie...heโd had one that said โHello, I Am 5 Today!โ, which was just about the worst possible present to get when you are six.
๐ฃ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐๐ช๐ผ๐ฝ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ธ
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, becauseโwhat with trolls and dwarfs and so onโspeciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.
๐๐ช๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ
This was music that had not only escaped but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.
๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค
There was a respectful silence, as there always is when large sums of money have just passed away.
๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ
"Quick, you must come with me," she said. "You're in great danger!"
"Why?"
"Because I will kill you if you don't."
๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ
And then everyone was just running, because everyone else was running.
๐ฅ๐พ๐๐๐
"I suppose there's not some kind of magic you don't know about?" "If there is, we don't know about it."
๐ก๐ฎ๐ช๐น๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ช๐ท
It occurred to him, not for the first time, that far too many people put their trust in iron and steel when gold made some of the best possible weapons.
๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค
Thank you for coming to see me. Don't hesitate to leave.
Guards! Guards!
It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.
Guards! Guards!
There is a curse. They say: May you live in interesting times.
๐๐ท๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ผ
