Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?
How could they live with it? And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only sensible course would be to despair. Amazing. To feel you were a tiny living thing, sandwiched between two cliffs of darkness. How could they stand to be alive?

Terry Pratchett

Tags: life death despair darkness



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Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

Terry Pratchett


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‎"Smrt je kuckala prstima po stolu, proizvodeći zvuk koji uopće ne sliči mišjem stepu, i podarila Morta s još nekoliko sekunda svojeg čvrstog pogleda. Učinilo joj se da dječak ima manje lakte nego kad ga je upoznala, da stoji malo uspravnije i, gle gluposti, znade koristiti riječi poput "iščekivanje". Za sve je kriva ta knjižnica.

Terry Pratchett


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Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: innocent commander sam-vimes cheery



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...they wore their hair long like a poet who hopes that romantically flowing locks will make up for a wretched inability to find a rhyme for “daffodil.

Terry Pratchett


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Agnes felt that beauty was even more likely to be in the eye of the beholder if the feet of the beholder were on something solid. At ten thousand feet up, the eye of the beholder tends to water.

Terry Pratchett


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There was practically nothing that he wouldn’t attack, including architecture.

Terry Pratchett


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I never understood that story, anyway,” said Nanny. “I mean, if I knew I’d got a heel that would kill me if someone stuck a spear in it, I’d go into battle wearing very heavy boots—

Terry Pratchett


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Mistress Weatherwax, you are a natural disputant.” “No I ain’t!

Terry Pratchett


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Sonata for Thunderstorm, Trapdoors and Young Women in Skimpy Clothing.

Terry Pratchett


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