No one who met the Nac Mac Feegles ever forgot them, even if they tried hard. (W)
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‘Living this long’s not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.’ (W)
It was difficult to talk to someone who paid attention all the time. It put you off. (HFS)
The chaffing qualities of frozen underwear can be seriously underestimated. (FE)
'Nothing like being stared at by a teddybear to put a young man off his stroke,' said Nanny Ogg. (CJ)
'That's an important theological point,' he muttered. 'But I'm too hungry to think about it, so let's eat first, and then if it turns out to be wrong to eat it, I promise to be very sorry.' (Wings)
A sleep full of dark dreams was no sleep at all, it was like a meal of ashes. (N)
Being inventive was all very well, but not when it stuck thorns into you. (DCC)
... people like Ridcully are never, ever embarrassed about anything, although often people are embarrassed on their behalf. (H)
No words could describe what a Feegle in a kilt looks like upside down, so they won't try. (WFM)
… when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it’s nice to be able to blaspheme. (MA)
Verence suddenly looked like a man who had been expecting a frontal attack and suddenly finds nasty things happening behind him. (LL)
Granny Weatherwax seemed to generate a gyroscopic field – if you started out off-balance, she saw to it that you remained there. (LL)
I hadn't noticed him before because he was one of these people you wouldn't notice if he was with you in a wardrobe.
He smiled the sort of smile you have to learn and stuck out his hand. Can't remember his face. He had a warm, friendly handshake, the kind where you want to have a wash afterwards. (BOS) … although it was a complicated recipe one taste had been enough to know that it was made out of fish entrails marinated for several years in a vat of shark bile. (M)
... trying to fight while a busy goblin was in your underwear was very bad for the concentration. (RS)
... he was allergic to the concept of two seven o'clocks in one day. (RS)
Once you had to deal with a ton of overheated octopus, you never for got it. (RS)
‘The whole place is so decent, level-headed and likeable it can make you scream, and then curse yourself for screaming.’ (LE)
And Joshua felt oddly uncomfortable, once more. A slight feeling you get when everything is so right that it might have gone all the way around the universe and come back metamorphosed into wrong. (LE)
…periwinkles, like cockles and whelks, might be considered the snot of the sea. (Sn)
And there is nothing more embarrassing than seeing a falling-down drunk except for when it is a falling-down drunk who is still standing up. (UA)
The wizards shuddered. They weren’t against the outdoors, it was simply their place in it they objected to. (H)
A stuffed alligator is absolutely standard equipment in any properly-run magical establishment. This one looked as though it hadn’t enjoyed it much. (M)
In the Ramtops witches were accorded a status similar to that which other cultures gave to nuns, or tax collectors, or cesspit cleaners. That is to say, they were respected, sometimes admired, generally applauded for doing a job which logically had to be done, but people never felt quite comfortable in the same room with them. (ER)
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