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Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2) QUOTES

Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2) QUOTES

1 " Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

2 " Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

3 " No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

4 " ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST, THEN THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLIND OBLIVION. AND EVEN OBLIVION MUST END SOMEDAY. LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS.

Death took a step backwards.

It was impossible to read expression in Azrael's features.

Death glanced sideways at the servants.

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN? "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

5 " The reaper does not listen to the harvest. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

6 " WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED? "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

7 " Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?
How could they live with it? And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only sensible course would be to despair. Amazing. To feel you were a tiny living thing, sandwiched between two cliffs of darkness. How could they stand to be alive? "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

8 " Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

9 " I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

10 " If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

11 " He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

12 " He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

13 " Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

14 " Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can.

People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

15 " Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

16 " I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

17 " It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

18 " Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.

When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

19 " Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone. "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

20 " Ridcully sighed.

'All right, you fellows,' he said. 'No magic at Table, you know the rules. Who's playing silly buggers?'

The other senior wizards stared at him.

'I, I, I don't think we can play it any more,' said the Bursar, who at the moment was only occasionally bouncing off the sides of sanity, 'I, I, I think we lost some of the pieces... "

― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)