July 2011
51 posts
“Humans, eh? Think they’re lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are....”
– Terry Pratchett - The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (via ekcetra)
“His was the air of one who is unjustly put upon, who is dreaded and feared, yet...”
– ~ Terry Pratchett; The Color of Magic (via miss-mutant)
“Possesion of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder—which was that...”
– ~ Terry Pratchett; The Color of Magic (via miss-mutant)
“Morituri Nolumus Mori”
– Terry Pratchett - The Last Hero (via ekcetra)
“I’m mean and turf and I’m mean and turf and
I’m mean and turf and I’m mean and...”
– terry pratchett (via thebooshislooseandalittlebitraw)
“‘Of course, it then became a free-for-all, with just about anybody throwing over...”
– I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett; in which we learn that Eskarina Smith is basically the Doctor. (via jiggit)
“In Ankh-Morpork even the shit has a street to itself,” said Detritus, awe and...”
– Men at Arms Terry Prachett (via mechassninja)
“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun...”
– Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (via cheersyoufuckingenius)
“Being Ymon’s right-hand man was like being flogged to death with scented...”
– ~ Terry Pratchett; The Color of Magic (via miss-mutant)
“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good...”
– Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork (Guards! Guards!)
“The beggars were not in fact this well versed in folkloric practice.
They ...”
– The Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett (via jane-noodlepudding)
“That’s what’s so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty...”
– The Colour of Magic - Sir Terry Pratchett (1983). (via memoryjarr)
“And the trouble with not asking for anything in return was that sometimes you...”
– Discworld // Carpe Jugulum (via awerka)
“I luvim”
“You can’t!”
“He saved my life!”
“That’s no basis for a...”
– Juliet & Glenda, from Terry Pratchett’s “Unseen Academicals” (via vitamini)
“Because that was the point, wasn’t it? You had to choose. You might be right,...”
– Discworld // Carpe Jugulum (via awerka)
“Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat...”
– Terry Pratchett (Discworld) (via georgiiiaaa)
“The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of...”
– Discworld // Carpe Jugulum (via awerka)
“People in Scoone Avenue had old money…. People in Scoone Avenue had their own...”
– from Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett (via thesummerofmark)
“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know...”
– Granny Weatherwax (and Mightily Oats) in Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett.
This is my favorite Discworld novel, and this part really shows why. The book is completely silly, but even in the middle of all of the silliness, you find exchanges like this.
(via tastiejam)
“‘Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats and...”
– A Hat Full Of Sky, Terry Pratchett (via bradleyjeems)
“Humans make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so full of...”
– Death, Hogfather (via awerka)
“When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.”
– Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (via mildperil)
“It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine...”
– Jingo by Terry Pratchett (via mildperil)
“On her apparently random walk to the buffet table Madam happened to meet several...”
– Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (via mildperil)
“Keep the peace. That was the thing. People often failed to understand what that...”
– Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (via mildperil)
“Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in...”
– Terry Pratchett - Thud! (via funwithautonomy)
“He said, “[…] would you be so good as to tell me: what is the sound of love?”...”
– Terry Pratchett; I shall wear Midnight (via tnk-sketched)
“They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in...”
– Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites (via fefetheteagirl)
“Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”
– Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (via josquirol)
Thief of Time
farcimini:
“Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?” Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: “A fish!” And Clodpool went away, satisfied. Terry Pratchett The Discworld
A Discworld fan writes a synopsis of Twilight as... →
fading-ink:
“It is important that we know where we come from, because 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, you don’t know where you’re going. And if you don’t know where you’re going, you’re probably going wrong.”
- Tiffany Aching (I shall wear midnight by Terry Pratchett)
“Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.”
– Terry Pratchett (via floatingxdream)
