“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”

“Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.”

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”

“Learn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.”

“Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.”

“You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”

“There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.”

“The truth is he spends thirty minutes of every hour suspecting he has missed some essential clue about himself. And not only himself--he has a recurring fantasy that one night, while he was asleep,...”

“Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erratically in all directions that the chances of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme. Colon, bei...”

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”

“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”