30 quotes found
“I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”
“Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.”
“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
“Handle with care. Probably has Views. Do not attempt to kiss hand.”
“It's madness, of course', thought Moist. 'But now I've got it, too.”
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
“You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No o...”
“I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing...”
“Do you understand what I'm saying?"shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!""Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm."What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?""I Work...”
“That was an important rule of any game: always make it easy for people to give you money.”
“There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.”
“There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course...”
“Miss Dearheart gave him a very brief look, and shook her head. There was movement under the table, a small fleshy kind of noise and the drunk suddenly bent forward, colour draining from his face. P...”
“Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.”
“Butbut you cant treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you cant say yes please, Ill have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling an...”
“Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it...”
“Time travel was only a kind of magic, after all. That's why it always went wrong.”
“It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently ref...”
“You didnt warn us about this, Readier, said Stowley resentfully.Gilt waved his hands. We must speculate to accumulate! he said. The Post Office? Trickery and sleight of hand. Oh, von Lipwig is an i...”
“Oh, that's just Thud! That's easy!" yapped a voice.Both men turned to look at Horsefry, who had been made perky by sheer relief."I used to play it when I was a kid," he burbled. It's boring. The dw...”
“Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if your ambitions included being an absolute ruler tomorrow. There were subtleties. Oh, you could orde...”
“Then he kept to the back streets, and found a place that did a very reasonable double sausage, egg, bacon and fried slice, in the hope that food could replace sleep.”
