May 2011
78 posts
She sighed again. She was familiar with the syndrome. They *said* they wanted a...
– Jingo (via esmereldaweatherwax)
But you read a lot of books, I’m thinking. Hard to have faith, ain’t it, when...
– Carpe Jugulum (via esmereldaweatherwax)
I could tell you.” Havelock smiled again. “But then I would have to find someone...
– Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett (via codalion)
An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you...
– Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (via lifeonthelam)
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Dear Terry Pratchett fans of tumblr, this is why... →
justanotherwhovian:
Yeah. That’s right. We have our own theatre company who produce Discworld themed plays. Beat. That.
It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head...
– Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about tenses of time travel, but...
– Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent (via ekcetra)
Death is hereditary.
You get it from your ancestors.
– Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (via lifeonthelam)
There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing...
– Discworld, “Feet of Clay”, by Terry Pratchett (via darkchaplain)
The People's Revolution of The Glorious 25th of...
scottishdreamergirl:
Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, And a Hard-Boiled Egg!
'tis Wear the Lilac Day! Bring on the hard-boiled... →
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Glorious 25th May
Vimes strolled back to the house. Off the register? Was he allowed to appeal? Perhaps they thought — The scent rolled over him. He looked up. Overhead, a lilac tree was in bloom. He stared. Damn! Damn! Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and...
The People's Revolution of The Glorious 25th of...
proustianrecall:
Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, And a Hard-Boiled Egg!
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Wear the Lilac if you were there.
pratwithmirrors:
All the little angels rise up, rise up. All the little angels rise up high! How do they rise up, rise up, rise up? How do they rise up, rise up high? They rise heads up, heads up, heads up, they rise heads up, heads up high!
Probably he ought to feel proud of his younger self, but he didn’t.
You’re not...
– Terry Pratchett, Night Watch (via gwenfrankenstien)
Behind Crumley, a voice said:
AND WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR HOGSWATCH, SMALL HUMAN?...
– The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (via ok-so)
WATCH …
This is space. It’s sometimes called the final frontier.
(Except that...
– The opening of Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (via wertler)
It wasn’t blood in general he couldn’t stand the sight of, it was just his blood...
– Sourcery (via esmereldaweatherwax)
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred...
– The Last Continent (via esmereldaweatherwax)
Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing...
– Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites (via chronikle)
If you can’t learn to ride an elephant, you can at least learn to ride a horse.”...
– Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites (via chronikle)
THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT...
– Death(on the differences between mercy, justice and beliefs), Hogather by Terry Pratchett (via my-new-inception)
The living often don’t appreciate how complicated the world looks when you are...
– Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites (via chronikle)
One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other...
– Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites (via chronikle)
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is...
– Terry Pratchett (via fancyaxolotl)
Will she live happily ever after?” he said.
NOT FOREVER BUT PERHAPS FOR LONG...
– Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad (via amdragonfly123)
THERE’S NO MAGIC. PEOPLE CAN’T SEE ME, THEY SIMPLY WON’T ALLOW THEMSELVES TO DO...
– Death, Mort by Terry Pratchett (via fyterrypratchett)
He removed his hat, and someone fell out of it with a tinkling sound. A small...
– The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (via ok-so)
Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant “idiot”.
– The Colour of Magic (via esmereldaweatherwax)
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
– Hogfather (via esmereldaweatherwax)
Nutt was technically an expert on love poetry throughout the ages and had...
– Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchett, p. 162 (via elvesarebad)
But even ordinary books are dangerous, and not only the ones like Make Gelignite...
– Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent (via lavavolavka)
‘What good is a candle at noonday?’
– Sourcery
Humans are always slightly lost. It’s a basic characteristic. It explains...
– Lords and Ladies.
He could lead armies, Angua thought. He really could. Some people have inspired...
– Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms (via r-colored)
The city wasa, wasa, wasa wossname. Thing. Woman. Thass what it was. Roaring,...
– Vimes (as he lay drunk in Ankh-Morpork’s gutters), Guards! Guards! (Love this first ever intro of Vimes even though Pratchett had originally set Carrot up to be the protagonist. It’s a nice little monologue that links up aptly with The Night Watch. Funny, sweet and sad in one go.)
Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It’s the difference between using a feather and...
– Eric (via esmereldaweatherwax)
Friday is the 13th.
spidersfilthyassistant:
This excites me for two reasons.
One, it will be exactly five months until Snuff is released.
To, on the 13th of every month his wife releases teasers on the official Terry Pratchett Facebook page and I’m excited to see what we get this month!
Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)
"You know what?' said Vimes aloud. 'This is going to be the world's first democratically killed dragon. One man, one stab.'
Then you've got to stop them. You can't let them kill it!' said Lady Ramkin.
Vimes blinked at her.
Pardon?' he said.
It's wounded!'
Lady, that was the intention, wasn't it? Anyway, it's only stunned,' said Vimes.
I mean you can't let them kill it like this,' said Lady Ramkin insistently. 'Poor thing!'
What do you want to do, then?' demanded Vimes, his temper unravelling. 'Give it a strengthening dose of tar oil and a nice comfy basket in front of the stove?'
It's butchery!'
Suits me fine!'
But it's a dragon! It's just doing what a dragon does! It never would have come here if people had left it alone!'
Vimes thought: it was about to eat her, and she can still think like this. He hesitated. Perhaps that did give you the right to an opinion..."