Discworld
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And then the world went mad.
All right, madder.(Page 199)
I had heard that this novel was less good than the others in the Discworld series, and I think that's true, but that just means that I liked it a lot rather than a very big lot!
In fact, it was still a very fun read!
Quotes
Nothing but stars, scattered across the blackness as though the Creator had smashed the windscreen of his car and hadn’t bothered to stop to sweep up the pieces.
[incipit]
Great A’tuin, the only turtle ever to feature on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram [...].
(Page 7)
People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.
(Page 74)
I fear the Ephebians, especially when they’re mad enough to leave bloody great wooden livestock on the doorstep, talk about nerve, they must think we was born yesterday, set fire to it.
Copolymer racconta la storia delle Guerre Tsortee
(Page 263)
It took great skill to persuade a Djelibeybi god to obey you, and the priests had to be fast on their toes. For example, if you pushed a rock off a cliff, then a quick request to the gods that it should fall down was certain to be answered.
(Page 317)
Everything that was magical was just a way of describing the world in words it couldn’t ignore.
(Page 358)
He’d wanted changes. It was just that he’d wanted things to stay the same, as well.
(Page 369)
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