Quotes From "I Shall Wear Midnight" By Terry Pratchett

At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are. Terry Pratchett

If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong. Terry Pratchett

Cheese runners shouted at it, tried to grab it, and flailed at it with sticks, but the piratical cheese scythed onward, reaching the bottom just ahead of the terrible carnage of men and cheeses as they piled up. Then it rolled back to the top and sat there demurely while still gently vibrating. At the bottom of the slope, fights were breaking out among the cheese jockeys who were still capable of punching somebody, and since everybody was watching that, Tiffany took the opportunity to snatch up Horace and shove him in her bag. After all, he was hers. Well, that was to say she had made him, although something odd must have gone into the mix since Horace was the only cheese that would eat mice and, if you didn't nail him down, other cheeses as well. Terry Pratchett

I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig! "" My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow…"" Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig! Terry Pratchett

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. Terry Pratchett

Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain .. . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy. Terry Pratchett

Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me. Terry Pratchett

She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?'' I'm sorry, ' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for. Terry Pratchett

It's witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts. Terry Pratchett

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having. Terry Pratchett

What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? "Evil starts when you begin to treat people as things". And right now it would happen if you thought there was a thing called a father, and a thing called a mother, and a thing called a daughter, and a thing called a cottage, and told yourself that if you put them all together you had a thing called a happy family. Terry Pratchett

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear. Terry Pratchett

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble. Terry Pratchett

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business. Terry Pratchett