Considering April is the month in which my brother and nephew died, 2 years ago, turning the page on my Discworld calendar and being faced with the following image really did make me roar laughing.
Considering April is the month in which my brother and nephew died, 2 years ago, turning the page on my Discworld calendar and being faced with the following image really did make me roar laughing.
The wizards had spent a lot of time in an atmosphere where a cutting remark did more damage than a magic sword and, for sheer malign pleasure, a well structured memo could do more real damage than a fireball every time. (Last Continent)
He was vaguely aware that he drank to forget. What made it rather pointless was that he couldn’t remember what it was he was forgetting any more. In the end he just drank to forget about drinking.
(Guards Guards)
The Luggage’s expression could only be described as wooden.
(The Light Fantastic)
Discworld Quote, from Feet of Clay
“‘Do you think there’s something a bit … odd about Littlebottom?’
‘Seems like a perfectly ordinary female to me,’ said Angua.
‘Female? He told you he was female?’
‘She,’ Angua corrected. ‘This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.’”
‘But what do you want to sacrifice us for?’ asked Twoflower. ‘You hardly know us!’
‘That’s rather the point isn’t it? It’s not very good manners to sacrifice a friend.’
(The Colour of Magic)
71-hour Ahmed was not superstitious. He was substitious, which put him in a minority among humans. He didn’t believe in the things everyone believed in but which nevertheless weren’t true. He believed instead in the things that were true in which no-one else believed.
(Jingo)
He was one of those people who would recoil from an assault on strength, but attack weakness without mercy. (Men at Arms)
I just found a post-it note from my wife at the breakfast table:
"I'm offline today."
On the sofa lies the first Discworld Witches novel "Equal Rites", with a bookmark a few pages in.
She wrote her first "I aten't dead" note without realizing it yet. 😍