Rahul Phatak

“And so into this land of sand-coloured dust and sand-coloured rocks and sand-coloured sand you, Willikins, will march with your expertise in cutlery and your red and white uniform?’ ‘With the gold frogging, sir.’ Willikins thrust out his jaw. ‘Yes, sir. If the need arises.’ ‘You don’t see anything wrong with this picture?’ ‘Sir?’ ‘Oh, never mind.’ Vimes yawned. ‘Well, we shall miss you, Willikins.’ Others may not, he thought. Especially if they have time for a second shot.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“It always amazed Vimes how Nobby got along with practically everyone. It must, he’d decided, have something to do with the common denominator. In the entire world of mathematics there could be no denominator as common as Nobby.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“They live their lives as a sort of temporal blur around the point where their body actually is – anticipating the future, or holding on to the past. They’re usually so busy thinking about what happens next that the only time they ever find out what is happening now is when they come to look back on it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. Crowley had thought about this for some time and, around about 1023, had said, Hang on, that only works, right, if you start everyone off equal, okay? You can’t start someone off in a muddy shack in the middle of a war zone and expect them to do as well as someone born in a castle. Ah, Aziraphale had said, that’s the good bit. The lower you start, the more opportunities you have. Crowley had said, That’s lunatic. No, said Aziraphale, it’s ineffable.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch