01c. 1981 ADPreston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
02c. 1981 ADThe living often don’t appreciate how complicated the world looks when you are dead, because while death frees the mind from the straitjacket of three dimensions it also cuts it away from Time, which is only another dimension. So while the cat that rubbed up against his invisible legs was undoubtedly the same cat that he had seen a few minutes before, it was also quite clearly a tiny kitten and a fat, half-blind old moggy and every stage in between. All at once. Since it had started off small it looked like a white, catshaped carrot, a description that will have to do until people invent proper four-dimensional adjectives.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
03c. 1981 ADIt is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
04c. 1981 ADAdora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
05c. 1981 ADThere's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
06c. 1981 ADThe universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
07c. 1981 ADThat's No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock, mistress,' said Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock. 'Ye were one jock short,' he added helpfully.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
08c. 1981 ADIt's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
09c. 1981 ADMy personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
10c. 1981 ADOr -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
11c. 1981 ADReality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
12c. 1981 ADJust because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
14c. 1981 ADHe'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
15c. 1981 ADI staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind...Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
16c. 1981 ADYou know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree."One of the giants grinned at him.Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
17c. 1981 ADThe Dean leaned toward an ear.“I was saying,” he said loudly, “that we didn’t know the meaning of the word ‘sex’ when we were young.”“That’s true. That’s very true,” said Poons. He stared reflectively at the flames. “Did we ever, mm, find out, do you remember?Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
18c. 1981 ADJoy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
19c. 1981 ADThe first question they ask is: "Why was he eternally surprised?"And they were told: "Wen considered the nature of time and understood the universe is, instant by instant, re-created anew. Therefore, he understood, there is, in truth, no Past, only a memory of the Past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
20c. 1981 ADYes, but nomes aren’t hard to make,” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
21c. 1981 ADGranny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
22c. 1981 ADAs far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
23c. 1981 ADMagrat liked to think she was good with children, and worried that she wasn’t. She didn’t like them very much, and worried about this too. Nanny Ogg seemed to be effortlessly good with children by alternately and randomly giving them either a sweet or a thick ear, while Granny Weatherwax ignored them for most of the time and that seemed to work just as well.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
24c. 1981 ADThings that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.Terry Pratchett / quote ↗
