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"He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore."
"He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you."
"Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!"
"And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?"
"The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys."
"Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!"
"In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds'."
"The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’"
"The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?"
"Things just happen. What the hell."
"In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid."
"But ye gotta know where ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'."
"Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the lamp because your custom is important to us. Please leave a wish after the tone and, very shortly, it will be our command. In the meantime, have a nice eternity.""
"Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.")"
"You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !"
"This book had two authors, and they were both the same person."
"People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why."
"If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children."
"You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can’t say ‘If only I’d…’ because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you’ll never know. You’ve gone past. So there’s no use thinking about it."
"See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin."