“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”
― Snuff
― Snuff
“Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.”
― Sourcery
― Sourcery
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