"It took place in the midnight in the University's Great Hall, in a welter of incense, candlesticks, runic inscriptions and magic circles, none of whic...












It's witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts.

More Terry Pratchett quotes
"It's rude to stare," said the troll. Its mouth opened with a little crest of foam, and shut again in exactly the same way that water closes over a sto...
"The land around Ankh-Morpork is fertile and largely given over to the cabbage fields that help to give the city its distinctive odor.The gray light of...
"It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.
"The sun set, which is everyday magic...
"Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slammin...
"You wanted magic, watch". She put her hand into the struggling mass of insects and made a shrill faint piping noise in the back of her throat. There w...
"And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. Yo...
"It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
"You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will?
"She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.
"High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat.
"Look at it like this, it's not that we're making life, we're simply giving life a place to live.
"Time travel was only a kind of magic, after all. That's why it always went wrong.
"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?