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Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1) QUOTES

Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1) QUOTES

1 " He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

2 " And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow and heavy with the silt of the plains, and by the time it got to The Shades even an agnostic could have walked across it. It was hard to drown in the Ankh, but easy to suffocate. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

3 " Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

4 " Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

5 " History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

6 " Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

7 " I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

8 " And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”
Death sighed. No, he said... there’s just me. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

9 " It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

10 " People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

11 " When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

12 " Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. So let's just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

13 " Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

14 " Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

15 " THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

16 " I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING, WOULDN'T IT? "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

17 " He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

18 " Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

19 " Well,----me,” he said. “A----ing wizard. I hate----ing wizards!” “You shouldn’t----them, then,” muttered one of his henchmen, effortlessly pronouncing a row of dashes. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)

20 " If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something. "

― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)