Terry Pratchett Mort Quotes

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

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

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

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#4. 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.

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

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons.

Chic Murray

#9. 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.

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#10. She considered, maybe for the first time, how lucky she was to be able to pick up the phone and call her mother whenever she needed bad advice.

Brady Udall

#11. 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

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#12. 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.

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#13. The worst thing was that her school-friends began to copy her. They thought it was dead cool to be a little monster like Lucretia Crum!

Babette Cole

#14. 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.

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#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.

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#16. NO ONE GETS PARDONED FOR LIVING.

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#17. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Felix Adler

#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.

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#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.

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#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.

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#21. I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

David Puttnam

#22. 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.

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#23. 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.

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#24. I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

Heather Matarazzo

#25. 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

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