IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean the sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF. 𝘏𝘰𝘨𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳

This was the type of thief that could steal the initiative, the moment and the words right out of your mouth. 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒚

Weems might have had a room-temperature IQ, but he knew idiocy when he saw it. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄

Funny, that. When he was alive it had all seemed so sensible, so obvious. Now he was dead it looked a huge waste of effort. 𝒫𝓎𝓇𝒶𝓂𝒾𝒹𝓈

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find... 𝓢𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓬𝓮𝓻𝔂

Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being reexamined and reevaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands. 𝓙𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓸

"I believe you vere an alcoholic, Sir Samuel." "No," said Vimes, completely taken aback, "I was a drunk. You have to be richer than I was to be an alcoholic." 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓕𝓲𝓯𝓽𝓱 𝓔𝓵𝓮𝓹𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓽

Someone was running, and they were chasing. They were chasing because he was running, and he was running because they were chasing. Men at Arms

She was generally referred to as the Lady, and her eyes were green. Interesting Times

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find... 𝓢𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓬𝓮𝓻𝔂

"Yes, but humans are more important than animals," said Brutha. "This is a point of view often expressed by humans," said Om. 𝒮𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒢𝑜𝒹𝓈

When you hear the bang, there's no time to wonder how long the little fuse has been fizzing. 𝘑𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘰

"I suppose you wouldn't happen to know the way out of the forest, possibly, by any chance?" "No. I don't get about much," said the tree. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄

History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders. 𝒥𝒾𝓃𝑔𝑜

Contrary to the headmistress’s instructions, Miss Susan did not let the children do what they liked. She let them do what she liked. It had turned out to be a lot more interesting for everyone. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆

"Where did you say your business was?" said Lezek. "Is it far?" NO FURTHER THAN THE THICKNESS OF A SHADOW, said Death. WHERE THE FIRST PRIMAL CELL WAS, THERE WAS I ALSO. WHERE MAN IS, THERE AM I. WHEN THE LAST LIFE CRAWLS UNDER FREEZING STARS, THERE WILL I BE. 𝓜𝓸𝓻𝓽

"You mean it's my destiny?" she said at last. Granny shrugged. "Something like that. Probably. Who knows?" 𝑬𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝑹𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔

The only reason for walking into the jaws of Death is so's you can steal his gold teeth. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓒𝓸𝓵𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓸𝓯 𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬

I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐

"I don't think they have a king there," said Varneshi. "Just some man who tells them what to do." The king of the dwarfs took this calmly. This seemed to be about ninety-seven percent of the definition of kingship, as far as he was concerned. Guards! Guards!

She felt the same feeling she'd felt back home. Sometimes life reaches that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do. It doesn't matter what direction you go. Sometimes you just have to go. 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦

Radiating from the book was the light that lies on the far side of darkness, the light fantastic. It was a rather disappointing purple colour. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓬

An immortal has a great deal to remember. Sometimes it’s better to put things where they will be safe. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. 𝓙𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓸

A sense of familiarity was creeping up on Susan, but surreptitiously, dodging behind things whenever she tried to concentrate on it. 𝓗𝓸𝓰𝓯𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻

All he had to do was be patient, and he was good at that. Pretty soon there'd be living creatures, developing like mad, running and laughing in the new sunlight. Growing tired. Growing old. Death sat back. He could wait. Whenever they needed him, he'd be there. 𝐸𝓇𝒾𝒸

"Madam, we're wizards," said the Senior Wrangler. "We don't do cheerful." 𝐻𝑜𝑔𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇

"According to Ephebian mythology, there's a girl who comes down here every winter." "To keep warm?" "I think the story says she actually creates the winter, sort of." "I've known women like that," said Rincewind, nodding wisely. 𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓬

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Men at Arms

Only one creature could have duplicated the expressions on their faces, and that would be a pigeon who has heard not only that Lord Nelson has got down off his column but has also been seen buying a 12-bore repeater and a box of cartridges. 𝑀𝑜𝓇𝓉

He'd stopped wondering how he'd come to be here, wherever it was. Malign forces. That was probably it. At least nothing particularly dreadful was happening to him right now. Probably it was only a matter of time. Eric

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN? Reaper Man

Better any king than chaos. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓕𝓲𝓯𝓽𝓱 𝓔𝓵𝓮𝓹𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓽

"Some people say you achieve immortality through your children," said the minstrel. "Yeah?" said Cohen. "Name one of your great-granddads, then." 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝐿𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝐻𝑒𝓇𝑜

That’s what prayers are...it’s frightened people trying to make friends with the bully! 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleaning, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. 𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔

Windle shook his head sadly. Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯

The path to wisdom does, in fact, begin with a single step. Where people go wrong is in ignoring all the thousands of other steps that come after it. 𝘏𝘰𝘨𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳

The planet Earth is now banned to an alien races until they can compare notes and find out how many, if any, real humans they have actually got. It is gloomily suspected that there is only one who is big, hairy and has very large feet. 𝑯𝒐𝒈𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓

"But he's on our side. Aren't you, Brutha?" Brutha tried to nod, and thought: I'm on everyone's side. It'd be nice if, just for once, someone was on mine. Small Gods

The machine whirred on, winding reality from the future to the past. Moving Pictures

This was the type of thief that could steal the initiative, the moment and the words right out of your mouth. 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒚

"I’ve been around for some time and I’ve noticed that them as has it in them to shine will shine through six layers of muck, whereas those who ain’t shiny won’t shine however much you buff ’em." Thief of Time

The king looked surprised. "I understood that Death came as a three-headed giant scarab beetle," he said. Death shrugged. WELL. NOW YOU KNOW. Pyramids

"Anyway, you don’t have to explain fossils. They’re there. Why try to turn everything into a big mystery? If you go around asking questions the whole time you’ll never get anything done." The Last Continent

Windle shook his head sadly. Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. Reaper Man

"It's certain death anyway," said Ridcully. "That's the thing about Death, certainty." Lords and Ladies

"There's no pockets in a shroud, Glod." "You got the wrong tailor, then." 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒍 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time. 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒕

"Don't be daft, Sergeant," he said. "No one ever saw a thousand-to-one chance come up. The odds against it are—" his lips moved—"millions to one." 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴! 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴!