Discworld Books Quotes

#1. There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited patiently as a herd of Critters crawled past, grazing on the contents of the choicer books and leaving behind them piles of small slim volumes of literary criticism.

Terry Pratchett

#3. His gaze had the intensity of a laser. "But it's not the same with you." My heart faltered. "Why?" "Because, Callahan." The brown eyes came closer. "I never loved anyone the way I love you.

Sarina Bowen

#4. The truth is that there comes a time
When we can mourn no more over music
That is so much motionless sound

Wallace Stevens

#5. What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?

Elliot Perlman

#6. The audience will remember what it didn't expect to see.

Stephen Mitchell

#7. I stared at him in stunned silence. This was not the Nathan I knew. The mask was gone, and for the first time I was seeing the true Nathan without any inhibitions. He was raw and lay bare before me.
He was stunning. More beautiful than usual in his agony.

K.I. Lynn

#8. Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.

Nora Roberts

#9. I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is.

Terry Pratchett

#10. This is the fiction that I'm referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative.

Hal Duncan

#11. I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.

James Taylor

#12. Maxon, that's not going to happen," I whispered into his neck. "If anything, you're going to realize I'm not good enough."
His lips were at my ear. "Darling, you're perfect.

Kiera Cass

#13. Only after Self-Realisation and only then, is there a direct experience of the Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human personality, and it's light enlightens the consciousness into a new awareness. The Divine intelligence of the Spirit radiates on all sides.

Nirmala Srivastava

#14. The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

Joichi Ito

#15. The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Those of us who are brave enough to venture out, find so many things that we never knew within.

Linda Poindexter

#17. The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.

David Beckham

#18. She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.

Kristin Hannah

#19. I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere.

Robert McCloskey