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I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.
In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.
Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.
I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so trees can't talk.
Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.
Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.
Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.
Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead
Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath.
Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.
He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.
You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.
I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.
It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.
Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.
Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!
It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers
The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.
OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?
You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.
It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.
No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.
The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.
...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.
Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.
The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania
If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.
People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.
You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.
I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.