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The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2) QUOTES

The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2) QUOTES

1 " The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

2 " It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed', although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had been badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

3 " That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany. He just looks at things, but nothing he looks at is ever the same again. Including me, I suspect. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

4 " A flicker of defiance flared very briefly in Rincewind's battered heart. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

5 " In fact the Gods were as puzzled by all this as the wizards were, but they were powerless to do anything and in any case were engaged in an eons-old battle with the Ice Giants, who had refused to return the lawnmower. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

6 " The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

7 " You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

8 " The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

9 " Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it… "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

10 " He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

11 " He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine... "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

12 " Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

13 " The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

14 " As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

15 " ...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

16 " Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

17 " The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

18 " The Luggage said nothing, but louder this time. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

19 " It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)

20 " It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the kind of deliberate annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life. It was the kind of sound that suggested very pointedly that in some hypothetical hourglass somewhere, another few grains of sand had dropped out form under you. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind #2)