The rain was coming down so fast that the drops were having to queue.
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The rain was coming down so fast that the drops were having to queue.
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"I saw you standing close to Vorbis," said Urn. "I thought you were protecting him."
"Oh, I was, I was," said Simony. "I don't want anyone to kill him before I do."
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Vimes was good at making the kind of rich enemies who could afford to employ assassins. The assassins had to be lucky only once, but Vimes had to be lucky all the time.
๐น๐๐๐ ๐๐ป ๐๐๐ถ๐
THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN.
She turned on him. "It's been a long night, Grandfather. I'm tired and I need a bath! I don't need silliness!"
THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN.
"Really? Then what would have happened, pray?"
A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.
Hogfather
Somewhere, in some other world far away from the Discworld, someone tentatively picked up a musical instrument that echoed to the rhythm in their soul. It will never die. It's here to stay.
๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค
C.M.O.T. Dibbler liked to be up at first light, in case there was an opportunity to sell a worm to the early bird.
Soul Music
Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.
๐๐พ๐ช๐ป๐ญ๐ผ! ๐๐พ๐ช๐ป๐ญ๐ผ!
He knew that young children could see him because they hadn't yet developed that convenient and selective blindness that comes with the intimation of personal mortality.
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Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
Terry Pratchett
"You never know until you look," said Nanny Ogg, expounding her own Uncertainty Principle.
๐ฟ๐๐๐น๐ ๐ถ๐๐น ๐ฟ๐ถ๐น๐พ๐๐
Hah! Why dint you put your own name on it, eh? Books've got to have a name on 'em so's everyone knows who's guilty.
Maskerade
The important thing to remember was that Holy Wood wasn't a real place at all.
Moving Pictures
There was another passage. He ran down it, on the basis that absence of pursuit is no reason to stop running.
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The rain was coming down so fast that the drops were having to queue.
๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด
He wanted to say all this, and couldn't. For a man with an itch to see the whole of infinity, Twoflower never actually moved outside his own head. Telling him the truth would be like kicking a spaniel.
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"We thought you were dead!" He had to admit that it wasn't a very good line. You didn't put people on a slab with candles and lilies all round them because you think they've got a bit of a headache and want a nice lie down for half an hour.
๐ก๐ฎ๐ช๐น๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ช๐ท
"Brutha?" said Urn. "You're alive?"
Brutha moved his eyes from his captor to Urn in a way which he hoped would indicate that it was too soon to make any commitment on this point.
๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐ข๐๐น๐
Any man with sense was wise to be fearful of a wifeโs best friends. For who knew what little secrets might be shared.
Terry Pratchett
"That's what you call metaphor," said Rincewind.
"Lying," the sergeant explained, kindly.
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They'd drag him off and it'd be the start of another Adventure, i.e., a period of horror and unpleasantness. Life was full of tricks like that.
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This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didnโt just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.
๐ฃ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐๐ช๐ผ๐ฝ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ธ
"Be resolute, my dear," said the Count. Rememberโthat which does not kill us can only make us stronger."
"And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"
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Education had been easy.
Hogfather
There was a respectful silence, as there always is when large sums of money have just passed away.
Sourcery
A wizard's only a priest without a god and a damp handshake.
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No one remembers the singer. The song remains.
๐ฏ๐ฝ๐ ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐
If people went around noticing everything that was going on all the time, no one would ever get anything done. This is another survival trait.
Men at Arms
People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.
Terry Pratchett
IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather.
"You mean the sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?"
YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.
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Intelligent robbers would have started to count up the incongruities here. These, however, were the other kind, the kind for whom evolution was invented.
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