April 2011
74 posts
“Where to?
Rincewind sighed. He´s tried to make his basic philosophy clear time...”
– Rincewind. Eric (via lordwilow)
“One of the minor laws of the narrative universe is that any homely featured man...”
– Terry Pratchett, Jingo (via nicehatfrumpshoes)
“Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.”
– The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (via effyeahyoungadultlit)
“Ridcully: You the type to burn a book, Lipwig?
Moist Von Lipwig: No.
Ridcully:...”
– Going Postal (TV Mini-Series)
Amen to that!
(via scantilycladsniper)
“One of the minor laws of the narrative universe is that any homely featured man...”
– Terry Pratchett, Jingo (via nicehatfrumpshoes)
“He always suspected the poetic description of Time like an ever-rolling stream....”
– from The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett (via pithia)
"Oh, private armies?
sirkai:
“Under the command of someone whose fitness for it lies in the fact that he can afford to pay for a thousand funny hats?”
Samuel Vimes on Team Fortress 2
“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you...”
– Hogfather (via nicehatfrumpshoes)
“There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with...”
– I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett (via cheerful-cynic)
“I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said.
I KNOW.
“I tried to live a good...”
– Men at arms - Terry Pratchett (via jimkirk)
“What we could do is die valiantly. I’ve seen men die valiantly. There’s no...”
– Commander Vimes, Thud! (Terry Pratchett)
“When you say ‘he has seen the light’ you sound as if you mean ‘corrupted,’” he...”
– Worlds Afire:
“Remember when he was going to go all the way up to Dunmanifestin to steal the...”
– Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett (via jimkirk)
“In the second scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised a story is written...”
– reading Thief of Time again (via nicehatfrumpshoes)
worldsafire:
Him who mountain crush him no Him who sun him stop him no Him who hammer break him no Him who fire fear him no Him who raise him head above him heart Him diamond
— Terry Pratchett, Thud!
“And then it was now.”
–
Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man
(via marcoadroque)
“‘I know that you are a man after my own heart.’
Vimes considered the anatomical...”
– -Cpt. Swing and Sam Vimes in Night Watch, by Sir Terry Pratchett (via zaffre)
The Tortoise and the Eagle
Now consider the tortoise and the eagle.
The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without being under it. Its horizons are a few inches away. It has about as good a turn of speed as you need to hunt down a lettuce. It has survived while the rest of evolution flowed past it by being, on the whole, no threat to anyone and too much trouble to...
“‘How may I hel-‘
FLOWERS.
Druto hesitated only for a moment.
‘And, er, the...”
– Death buys flowers, Terry Pratchett’s Reaper Man (via fourwasmydoctor)
“Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things....”
– Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters (via reverse-mermaid)
Sir Terry Pratchett in Conversation: Imagination... →
“‘I thought we could do it without anyone getting hurt. By using our...”
– Interesting Times
“Most of what you get taught is lies. It has to be. Sometimes if you get the...”
–
The Thief of Time
“Here are people who know that there is no steel, only the idea of steel....”
–
The Thief of Time
“A man who rushes into a burning building to rescue a stupid cat and comes out...”
– Going Postal, Terry Pratchett, p.322 (via elvesarebad)
“It’s a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn’t bad...”
– Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett (via neskwikk)
“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a...”
– “The colour of magic”- Terry Pratchett (via darkenchantress)
Snuff →
An excerpt from Terry Pratchett’s upcoming book, Snuff!
“Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows...”
– Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (via dirgeforajoker)
“The truth isn’t easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is...”
– Sourcery, Terry Pratchett (via neskwikk)
“No! Please! I’ll tell you whatever you want to know!” the man yelled.
“Really?”...”
– Terry Pratchett, Night Watch (via megaloo)
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
– Terry Pratchett (via fuckyeahterrypratchett)
“Don’t meddle in the affairs of witches because they clout you around the ear.”
– I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (via squidbait)
“What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man...”
– Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (via fleurdelanuit)
“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think...”
– Terry Pratchett,Jingo (via xwhitepuzzle)
“He couldn’t help remembering how much he’d wanted a puppy when he was a little...”
– Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (via mattocat) 