Pratchett Mort Quotes

#1. NO ONE GETS PARDONED FOR LIVING.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Mort: How do you get all these coins?
Death: IN PAIRS

Terry Pratchett

#3. I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.

Katherine Heigl

#4. I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#5. THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Goodbye," Mort said, and was surprised to find a lump in his throat. "It's such an unpleasant word, isn't it?" QUITE SO. Death grinned because, as has so often been remarked, he didn't have much option. But possibly he meant it, this time. I PREFER AU REVOIR, he said.

Terry Pratchett

#7. How do you get all those coins? asked Mort.
IN PAIRS.

Terry Pratchett

#8. We thought the fireworks were marvelous," said Mort. "And I expect they'll soon be able to rebuild the outer wall.

Terry Pratchett

#9. It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.

Terry Pratchett

#10. The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame.

Luc De Clapiers

#11. And he goes around killing people?" said Mort. He shook his head. "There's no justice."
Death sighed. No, he said ... there's just me.

Terry Pratchett

#12. You don't know about that what you talk about," he added, with more feeling than grammar, "else you wouldn't say that. What do you want from me?" Mort

Terry Pratchett

#13. Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"
Mort thought for a moment.
"No," he said eventually, "what?"
There was silence.
Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.

Terry Pratchett

#14. HAVE YOU EVER BITTEN REDHOT ICE CUBE? THAT'S CURRY.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Mort glanced sideways at the top of Ysabell's dress, which contained enough puppy fat for two litters of Rottweilers, and forbore to comment.

Terry Pratchett

#16. And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow and heavy with the silt of the plains, and by the time it got to The Shades even an agnostic could have walked across it. It was hard to drown in the Ankh, but easy to suffocate.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Getting sweaty with a woman after some good sex was one thing, but he'd rather not start out that way.

Cat Johnson

#18. Pray note that my chest does not appear to be a toast rack in a wet paper bag.
Mort glanced sideways at the top of Ysabell's dress, which contained enough puppy fat for two litters of Rotweilers, and forbore to comment.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Something like a small blue supernova flared for a moment in the depths of his eyesockets. It dawned on Mort that, with some embarrassment and complete lack of expertise, Death was trying to wink.

Terry Pratchett

#20. They don't go in for the fancy or exotic, but stick to conventional food like flightless bird embryos, minced organs in intestine skins, slices of hog flesh and burnt ground grass seeds dipped in animal fats; or, as it is known in their patois, egg, sausage, bacon and a fried slice of toast.

Terry Pratchett

#21. Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.

Terry Pratchett

#22. Intensity of connection,
Depth of emotion,
Unified thoughts,
No doubts in the significance of you.

Truth Devour

#23. The father who went off to war was not the one who came home. She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was as impossible as the other.

Kristin Hannah

#24. If you've got time to fantasize about a beautiful death, why not live beautifully until the end?

Hideaki Sorachi

#25. Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.

Maureen Johnson

#26. It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

Mary Renault

#27. Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

Terry Pratchett

#28. In the mind, we doubt and suspect, and we get a kind of pleasure, a kind of joy from that. But in the heart, we try to encompass the full world, and by loving the world, we get joy.

Sri Chinmoy

#29. I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

Jurgen Habermas

#30. They're always telling folk how much better it's going to be when they're dead. We tell them it could be pretty good right here if only they'd put their minds to it.' Mort

Terry Pratchett