The Librarian knuckled out into the Library of the here and now. Every hair on his body bristled with rage.
He pushed open the door and swung out into the stricken city.
Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian.
With a badge.
(Guards Guards)
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The Patrician didn’t believe in unnecessary cruelty.*
*While being bang alongside the idea of necessary cruelty, of course.
(Guards Guards)
CALLING SOMETHING A FIGURE OF SPEECH DOESN’T MEAN IT’S NOT TRUE. (Soul Music)
… ‘to call his understanding of magic theory abysmal is to leave no suitable word to describe his grasp of its practice.’
(Sourcery)
Things just happen, one after another. They don’t care who knows. But history … ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just … well, things happening one after another. (Small Gods)
The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without being under it. Its horizons are a few inches away. It has about as good a turn of speed as you need to hunt down a lettuce. It has survived while the rest of evolution flowed past it by being, on the whole, no threat to anyone and too much trouble to eat. (Small Gods)
Brutha had never been any good at lying. The truth itself had always seemed so incomprehensible that complicating things even further had always been beyond him. (Small Gods)
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Metres, the Mile, the Marathon – he’d run them all. (Last Continent)
‘Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir,’ said Carrot
‘What, in Ankh-Morpork?’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value.’
(Guards Guards)
When people were in serious trouble they went to a witch.*
*Sometimes, of course, to say, ‘Please stop doing it.’ (Carpe Jugulum)