'Of course, it would be more ... satisfying if we were four children and a dog, which is the right number for an adventure, but we'll make do with what we've got.' (AM)
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And did the book have any adventures for people who had brown eyes and brown hair? No, no, no ... it was the blond people with blue eyes and the redheads with green eyes which got the stories. If you had brown hair you were probably just a servant or a woodcutter or something. Or a dairymaid. (WFM)
'Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.' (CJ)
Their eyes said that wherever it was, they had been there. Whatever it was, they had done it, sometimes more than once. But they would never, ever, buy the T-shirt. And they did know the meaning of the word 'fear'. It was something that happened to other people. (LH)
'I always live in interestin' times,' said Cohen, in the satisfied voice of someone who did a lot to keep them interesting. (IT)
'You know, in many ways I don't think this adventure has been properly organised.' (AM)
... 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)
‘I feel like a fish out of water.’
‘Well, the way I see it, it’s up to you to make your own water,’ said Nanny …. (LL) For wolves and pigs and bears, thinking that they’re human is a tragedy. For a cat, it’s an experience. (WA)
'Why, Mister Lipwig? You of all people ask me why? The man who danced on the train roof, the man who actually looks for trouble if it appears to be the kind of trouble which is associated with the term derring-do? Though in your case a few more derring-dont's might be a good idea. Sometimes, Mister Lipwig, the young you that you lost many years ago comes back and taps you on the shoulder and says, "This is the moment when civilization does not matter, when rules no longer hold sway. You have given the world all you can give and now it's the time that is just for you, the chance to go for broke in the last hurrah. Hurrah!" (RS)
‘Generally speaking,’ Lobsang pronounced, ‘reality having little sense of narrative, ancient sites are not heavy with swinging blades that decapitate, or rock panels that fold back to fire darts. It’s rather a shame isn’t it?’ (LE)
What we have here, he told himself, is a Mk1 Feisty Old Lady: turkey neck, embarrassing sense of humour, a gleeful pleasure in mild cruelty, direct way of speaking that flirts with rudeness and, more importantly, flirts with flirting. Likes to think she’s no ‘lady’. Game for anything that doesn’t carry a risk of falling over ... (MM)
Too many people, when listing all the perils to be found in the search for lost treasure or ancient wisdom, had forgotten to put at the top of the list ‘the man who arrived just before you’. (LH)
'... the only reason for walking into the jaws of Death is so’s you can steal His gold teeth.' (COM)
'It will certainly be a challenge to go where no one has gone before,’ said Carrot.
‘Wrong! We’re going where no one has come back from before.' (LH) 'You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.' (MM)
There were big adventures and small adventures, Mr Bunnsy knew. You didn’t get told what size they were going to be before you started. Sometimes you could have a big adventure even when you were standing still. (AM)
The important thing about adventures, thought Mr Bunnsy, was that they shouldn’t be so long as to make you miss mealtimes. (AM)
... most pixies and gnomes weren’t the least interested in dressing up in little pointy hats with bells on when there were
other far more interesting things to do. All that tinkly-wee stuff was for the old folks back home in the forest – when a tiny man hit Ankh-Morpork he preferred to get drunk, kick some serious ankle and search for tiny women. (H) |
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