...to be a witch you needed to be sensible, so sensible that sometimes it hurt. You dealt with the reality - not what people wanted. (SC)
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‘... I’m in the mood for a good mood.’ (ISWM)
... when offered port you should say, ‘Ah, yes, I will have a little port.’ Everyone says this. You have to say it even if what you intend is a lot of port. (NOC)
... there was something about his expression, as of a rat who was expecting cheese right around the next corner, and had been expecting cheese around the last corner too, and the corner before that, and, although the world has turned out so far to be full of corners yet completely innocent of any cheese at all, was nevertheless quite certain that, just around the corner, cheese awaited. (NW)
'Part of us thinks all kinds of things...' (TOT)
The young woman stood on a corner in the Shades. Her general stance indicated that she was, in the specialised patois of the area, a lady-in-waiting. To be more precise, a lady-in-waiting for Mr Right, or at least Mr Right Amount. (FE)
'There's nothing we cannae get in or oot of.'
'Except maybe pubs,' said Big Yan. 'Oh, aye,' said Rob Anybody cheerfully. 'Gettin' oot o' pubs sometimes causes us a cerrrtain amount o' difficulty, I'll grant ye that.' (WFM) 'Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.' (CJ)
'People need something today but they generally need something else tomorrow.' (CJ)
'I can't start repenting at my time of life. I'd never get any work done. Anyway,' she added, 'I ain't sorry for most of it.' (CJ)
The senior wizards, eying the chocolate biscuits on the tray brought in by the tea lady, listened with as much attention as could be expected from wizards momentarily afflicted with chocolate starvation. (JD)
... Dwarfs have thousands of words for 'gold' but will use any of them in an emergency, such as when they see some gold that doesn't belong to them. (SM)
People who say things like 'may all your dreams come true' should try living in one for five minutes. (WFM)
You couldn't bribe Granny Aching for all the gold in the world, but you could definitely attract get attention with an ounce of Jolly Sailor. (WFM)
… when it came to rampant eroticism, you could do a lot better than a one-eyed tortoise. (SG)
‘… a bit of hussing never did anyone any harm.’ (WA)
She leaned forward and gave him a kiss as insubstantial as a mayfly’s sigh, fading as she did so until only the kiss was left, just like a Cheshire cat only much more erotic. (M)
‘What’re you supposed to be?’ he said at last.
‘A leader of a pack of desert bandits, apparently,’ said Victor. ‘Romantic and dashing.’ ‘Dashing where?’ ‘Just dashing generally, I guess.’ (MP) “… when you sell sausages you don’t just hang around waiting for people to want sausage, you go out there and make them hungry. And you put mustard on ‘em.” (MP)
“Truly, the world is the mollusc of your choice …” (P)
… dreams that come true are not always the right dreams. (SC)
‘… kindness lasts a lot longer than love, because my mother always said that kindness was love in disguise.’ (Do)
‘… onto the world that is people paint the world that they would like.’ (Do)
It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until that moment you had never known that you always wanted to do it …. (Sn)
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