… there’s nothing more useless in the world than a groom just before the wedding. (MA)
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Dogs were brighter than wolves. Wolves didn't need intelligence. They had other things. But dogs ... they'd been given intelligence by humans. Whether they wanted it or not. They were certainly more vicious than wolves. They'd got that from humans too. (MA)
You didn't need daft old herbs to make your life a problem, if you spent one week every month with two extra legs and four extra nipples. (MA)
'.... there's big crimes and little crimes. Sometimes the little crimes look big and the big crimes you can hardly see, but the crucial thing is to decide which is which.' (MA)
He was one of those people who would recoil from an assault on strength, but attack weakness without mercy. (MA)
... mysterious caves and tunnels always have luminous fungi, strangely bright crystals or at a pinch merely an eldritch glow in the air, just in case a human hero comes in and needs to see in the dark. Strange but true. (MA)
C.M.O.T. Dibbler had a number of bad points, but species prejudice was not one of them. He liked anyone who had money, regardless of the colour and shape of the hand that was proffering it. (MA)
... money in the possession of other people had always seemed to Throat to be against the proper natural order of things. (MA)
The Axiom 'Honest men have nothing to fear from the police' is currently under review by the Axioms Review Board. (MA)
Cuddy had only been a guard for a few days but already he had absorbed one important and basic fact: it is almost impossible for anyone to be in a street without breaking the law. (MA)
Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realising that most of his customers want meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits. (MA)
So many crimes are solved by a happy accident – by the random stopping of a car, by an overheard remark, by someone of the right nationality happening to be within five miles of the scene of the crime without an alibi … (MA)
The River Ankh is probably the only river in the universe on which the investigators can chalk the outline of the corpse. (MA)
He’d faced trolls and dwarf and dragons, but now he was having to meet an entirely new species. The rich. (MA)
‘Don’t stick your nose in where someone can pull it off and eat it.’ (MA)
… when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it’s nice to be able to blaspheme. (MA)
‘Dwarfs and trolls get along like a house on fires’, said Nobby. ‘Ever been in a burning house, miss?’ (MA)
The problem with Destiny, of course, is that she is often not careful where she puts her finger. (MA)
… he was the sort of person who always took laughter personally. (MA)
He could think in italics. Such people need watching.
Preferably from a safe distance. (MA) |
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