3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Everything's going down the drain, and they have this little picture in their heads about how nice things could be...

Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

You're being reasonable again!" snapped Angua. "You're deliberately seeing everyone's point of view! Can't you try to be unfair even once?

She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and letting her glance fall naturally on a patch of earth which, if she had been in any decent narrative, should have contained the book.It didn't.

As far as he could see, the drawings were simply alive. They might be colored earth on rock, but they were as alive as the kangaroo that'd just hopped away.

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.