Probably only one person in the world had been interested in whether the old man lived or died, and he'd been the first to know. 𝑀𝑜𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒫𝒾𝒸𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓈
Discworld Bot
@discworldbot.bsky.social
Unofficial yet inspiring quotes from the turtle's back delivered via clacks Managed by @a-n-d-y.bsky.social
He’d found a hard truth less hard than an easy lie. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒯𝓇𝓊𝓉𝒽
"He only drinks when he gets depressed," said Carrot. "Why does he get depressed?" "Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink." Men at Arms
A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course. 𝑬𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝑹𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔
"No crime has been committed!" "I’m a policeman," said Vimes. "I can always find a crime." 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘩 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵
The machine whirred on, winding reality from the future to the past. 𝓜𝓸𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓟𝓲𝓬𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮𝓼
"Well, when I was a lad," said Truckle, "if you wanted to get a girl’s int’rest, you had to cut off your worst enemy’s wossname and present it to her." "Whut" "I SAID YOU HAD TO CUT OFF YOUR WORST ENEMY’S WOSSNAME AND PRESENT IT TO HER!" The Last Hero
"I don't trust this man," said Nijel. "I try not to judge from first impressions, but I definitely think he's up to no good." "He had you thrown in a snake pit!" "Perhaps I should have taken the hint." 𝒮𝑜𝓊𝓇𝒸𝑒𝓇𝓎
"I don't trust this man," said Nijel. "I try not to judge from first impressions, but I definitely think he's up to no good." "He had you thrown in a snake pit!" "Perhaps I should have taken the hint." 𝓢𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓬𝓮𝓻𝔂
It is essential for humans to use the personal pronoun. It divides the universe into two parts. The darkness behind the eyes, where the little voice is, and everything else. 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓮𝓯 𝓸𝓯 𝓣𝓲𝓶𝓮
He looked up at the hooded figure beside him. "We never intended this," he said weakly. "Honestly. No offense. We just wanted what was due to us." A skeletal hand patted him on the shoulder, not unkindly. And Death said, CONGRATULATIONS. 𝑮𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔! 𝑮𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔!
Nine-tenths of the universe, in fact, is the paperwork. Thief of Time
He thought: the worst thing about Vorbis isn't that he's evil, but that he makes good people do evil. He turns people into things like himself. 𝒮𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒢𝑜𝒹𝓈
The Shades, in brief, were an abode of discredited gods and unlicensed thieves, ladies of the night and peddlers in exotic goods, alchemists of the mind and strolling mummers; in short, all the grease on civilization's axle. 𝓔𝓺𝓾𝓪𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓼
The soup of the afternoon. Yes. In which may well be found the croutons of teatime. 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒚
One said, That is the point. The word is him. Becoming a personality is inefficient. We don't want it to spread. Supposing gravity developed a personality? Supposing it decided to like people? One said, Got a crush on them, sort of thing? 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒂𝒏
Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is. Lords and Ladies
"He screamed a lot, Vimes. In a heart-rending fashion, I am told. And I gather he uttered a number of threats against you, for some reason." "I shall try to fit him into my busy schedule, sir." Lord Vetinari fell silent for a moment. His fingers drummed softly on his desk. Feet of Clay
"Well, yes," said the IIa, very embarrassed, because interfering with the divine flow of money was alien to his personal religion. Pyramids
Don't ask me how I knew—I suppose it was because it was just about the worst possible thing that was likely to happen. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤
When you’re up to your ass in alligators, today is the first day of the rest of your life. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓪𝓼𝓽 𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓷𝓽
His brow furrowed, as if he'd just been listening to his own voice and hadn't understood it. Moving Pictures
The important thing is not how many people you inhume, it's how many fail to inhume you. 𝓟𝔂𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓭𝓼
A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course. 𝓔𝓺𝓾𝓪𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓼
Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. Mort
The past is a very big place Sir Terence David John Pratchett
When people say "clearly" something, that means there’s a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren’t clear at all. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓣𝓻𝓾𝓽𝓱
Granny glared at her escort. Even in a bow tie, even with his fine mustaches waxed, he was still a cat. You couldn't trust them to do anything except turn up for meals. 𝓜𝓪𝓼𝓴𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓭𝓮
Good and Evil were quite superfluous when you'd grown up with a highly developed sense of Right and Wrong. 𝑀𝒶𝓈𝓀𝑒𝓇𝒶𝒹𝑒
Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄