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. (GG)
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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. (GG)
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'Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They’ve got a mean streak.' (WFM)
'I don’t mind criticism,’ said Granny. ‘You know me. I’ve never been one to take offence at criticism. No-one could say I’m the sort to take offence at criticism -’
‘Not twice, anyway,’ said Nanny. (WA) Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked. (GP)
People said that you should always count up to ten before losing your temper. But if it was Annagramma you were dealing with, you had to know some bigger numbers, like perhaps a million. (W)
If you’re going to be angry and miserable, you might as well be so on a full stomach. (W)
‘Try not to shoot her, all right? It only makes her mad.' (W)
The University’s proctors were known as lobsters because they went very red when hot and had a grip that was extremely hard to shake off. They were generally ex-army sergeants, and had depths of cynicism unplumbable by any line, and were fuelled by beer. (DW)
'Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel and it turns backwards. The dead are not your masters.' (MR)
‘You’re good at anger, your grace. You save it up for when you need it.' (FE)
Lancre operated on the feudal system, which was to say, everyone feuded all the time and handed on the fight to their descendants. The chips on some shoulders had been passed down for generations. Some had antique value. A bloody good grudge, Lancre reckoned, was like a fine old wine. You looked after it carefully and left it to your children. (CJ)
The worst thing about losing your temper with Mustrum Ridcully was that he never noticed when you did. (LC)
[The Luggage] had spent many years trailing through strange lands, meeting exotic creatures and jumping up and down on them. (TT)
Ramtop people believed the Ogg feud was a blessing. The thought of them turning their immense energy on the world in general was a terrible one. Fortunately, there was no-one an Ogg would rather fight than another Ogg. It was family. (WS)
Possibly this made it angrier, although with the Luggage there wasn’t any reliable way of telling because it spent all its
time beyond, in a manner of speaking, the hostility event horizon. (E) Vimes lowered the ape, who wisely didn’t make an issue of it because a man angry enough to lift 300 lbs of orangutan without noticing is a man with too much on his mind. (GG)
...when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible. (GG)
‘People always come back from the dead in such a bad temper ...' (P)
Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger is one of the world’s great creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn’t mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard steam of wrath power the turbines of revenge. (WS)
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