May 2013
9 posts
Nothing’s louder than the end of a song that’s always been there.
– The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett (via goldshitter)
If you didn’t find some way of stopping it, people would go on asking...
– The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett (via catefrankie)
Everything that exists, yearns to live. That’s what the cycle of life is all...
– Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett (via herrissyvoo)
Death sat on a mountaintop. It wasn’t particularly high, or bare, or sinister....
– Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett (via herrissyvoo)
Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics)... →
I believe in freedom, Mr. Lipwig. Not many people do, although they will, of...
– Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (2004)
April 2013
19 posts
I can blow anything,” said Glod.
“Realllly?” said Imp. He sought for some...
– Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (via slythwolf)
Things were simpler then,” said the Count. “And also very, very stupid.
– Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (via fragmentsshoredagainstmyruin)
Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with...
– Terry Pratchett, Mort (via quotebook-notebook)
Albert grunted. “Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?”...
– Terry Pratchett, Mort (via quotebook-notebook)
Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every blade of grass?...
– Terry Pratchett - A Hat Full of Sky (via goldshitter)
The hot wind flapped the banners. The sunlight sparkled off the spears. Lord...
– Terry Pratchett, Jingo (via gadding-about)
He tossed the paper aside. ‘Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy...
– Jingo, Sir Terry Pratchett (via ragetiger-industries)
‘Shall we try a different way?’ she said, and snapped her fingers.
‘Yes!’ the...
– Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett (via jiggit)
Imp hesitated, as people do when, after having used a language all their lives,...
– Terry Pratchett, “Soul Music” (via twin-city-ankh-and-morpork)
Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group...
– Terry Pratchett, “The Science of Discworld” (via twin-city-ankh-and-morpork)
There’s no point in believing in things that exist….if they exist, you don’t...
– Terry Pratchett “Small Gods” (via thevortexofourminds)
He watched the piano jerk and wobble down the marble steps and around the...
– Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (via the-alchemist-guild)
March 2013
22 posts
It had been an uneventful night. About an hour earlier, a sixty-four-foot organ...
– Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (via the-alchemist-guild)
However, assassins black doesn’t frighten everyone, and in certain sections of...
– Terry Pratchett, I love you. I
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I love you, Terry Pratchett.
(via jaapr)
He jerked himself upright, swung his legs off the bed, and folded up. It was a...
– Terry Pratchett, “Feet of Clay” (via twin-city-ankh-and-morpork)
Commander Vimes, on the other hand, was all for giving criminals a short, sharp...
– Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay (via the-alchemist-guild)
Vetinari watched him go, and sighed. ‘He does so like a dramatic exit,’ he said....
– Terry Pratchett, “Feet of Clay” (via twin-city-ankh-and-morpork)
“Ah, Mr. Reacher Gilt,” said Vetinari, looking directly at him. “I’m so… pleased...
– Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (via the-alchemist-guild)
One of the remarkable innovations introduced by the Patrician was to make the...
– Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (via the-alchemist-guild)
Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at the...
– Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (via camishcd)
Thinking about "Night Watch"
uncdan:
I really want to discuss one of my favourite Terry Pratchett novels, “Night Watch.”
Possible spoilers below the line.
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Drumknott, with meticulous timing, put a cup of coffee in front of his master,...
– Terry Pratchett, Snuff (via the-alchemist-guild)
People like to be told what they already know. Remember that. They get...
– Lord Vetinari, Terry Pratchett’s The Truth (via hsimah)
The Patrician’s domestic staff looked up from their dinner.
“When you say...
– Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay (via the-alchemist-guild)
“You know, I think there probably is some law against selling weapons to the...
– Terry Pratchett, Jingo (via i-am-lucys-red-dress)
Yes, it was fascinating. You could become famous just for being, well, famous....
– Lord Havelock Vetinari in Terry Pratchett’s “Moving Pictures” (via it-sounds-uncommon-nonsense)
Feudal system! Pay attention. Feudal system. King on top, then barons and...
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
(via leo-topp)
‘Every evil tyrant has a plan to rule the world. The good people don’t seem to...
– Havelock Vetinari in Terry Pratchett’s “Guards! Guards!” (via it-sounds-uncommon-nonsense)
When does it start? There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be...
– Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
(via leo-topp)
“I think you may have got it stuck up your bum. I mean, good grief! A bit of...
– Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay (via the-alchemist-guild)