3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany. He just looks at things, but nothing he looks at is ever the same again. Including me, I suspect.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.

The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a Black Hole that knows how to read.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.

I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN.