“Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.”
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“Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.”
“Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.”
“People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.”
“The universe was bad enough without people poking it.”
“The city's full of people who you just see around.”
“I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.”
“Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out.”
“Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.”
“Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it”
“Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.”
“People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.”
“It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.”
“You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.”
“People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”
“… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood.”
“Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.”
“I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.”
“Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn't see the point of believing, of going around saying "O great table, without whom we are as naught." Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe in them or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees.”
“…We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, it’s an easy technique, but what would be the point? When you eat… now what is it you eat? Oh yes, chocolate… you don’t want to turn it into another Agnes Nitt, do you? Less chocolate to go around." He sighed. "Oh dear, superstition, superstition everywhere we turn.”