‘It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment ...

‘Darkness isn’t the opposite of light, it is simply its absence . . . what was radiating from the book ...

‘They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot ...

‘YOU CANNOT INTERFERE WITH FATE. WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE WHO SHOULD LIVE AND WHO SHOULD DIE?’ Death comes to ...

‘It’s vital to remember who you really are . . . it isn’t a good idea to rely on other ...

‘Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It’s the other way around.’ Three ...

‘Look after the dead’, said the priests, ‘and the dead will look after you.’ Wise words in all probability, but ...

‘Vimes ran a practised eye over the assortment before him. It was the usual Ankh-Morpork mob in times of crisis; ...

Eric calls up a demon to grant him three wishes – but what he gets is the Discworld’s most incompetent ...

‘Holy Wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most important things are gods ...

‘Inside every living person is a dead person waiting to get out.’ Death has been fired by the Auditors of ...

‘You can’t go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise ...

‘You should do things because they’re right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.’ Religion ...

‘People didn’t seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more ...

‘What’s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work’s already been done. You ought to ...

‘This didn’t feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.’ Being sixteen is always ...

‘There is a curse. They say: may you live in interesting times . . .’This is the worst thing you ...

‘There’s a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes ...

‘Sorry?’ said Carrot. ‘If it’s just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing,’ – he ...

‘Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.’ ‘Twas the ...

‘Neighbours… hah. People’d live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and ...

‘Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on ...

‘“Carpe Jugulum,”’ read Agnes aloud. ‘That’s . . . well, Carpe Diem is Seize the Day, so this means—’“Go for ...

‘Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It’s lying, only for a better class of people.’ They say that diplomacy ...

‘A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on…’ William de Worde is the ...

‘The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew . . . The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.’ ...

A short but perfectly formed complete Discworld novel, fully illustrated in lavish colour throughout, The Last Hero is an essential ...

Rats! They’re everywhere: in the breadbins, dancing across tabletops, stealing pies from under the cooks’ noses. So what does every ...

For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a ...

Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the ...

‘Trousers. That’s the secret… Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these ...

Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic – not chores and ill-tempered ...

The post was an old thing, of course, but it was so old that it had magically become new again ...

‘Beating people up in little rooms… he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, ...

‘Crivens!’ Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made just one little mistake . . . And now the spirit of ...

Whoever said you can’t fool an honest man wasn’t one. The Royal Bank is facing a crisis, and it’s time ...

‘We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.’ Football has ...

As the witch of the Chalk, Tiffany Aching performs the distinctly unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someone ...

‘The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.’ It is a truth universally acknowledged that ...

Change is in the air for Moist von Lipwig, swindler, con-man, and (naturally) head of the Royal Bank and Post ...

Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it ...

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