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The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
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“When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtle would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“Death sat in His garden, running a whetstone along the edge of His scythe. It was already so sharp that any passing breeze that blew across it was sliced smoothly into two puzzled zephyrs,”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“And no cheating, Lady." he said.
"But who could cheat Fate?" she asked. He shrugged."No-one. Yet everyone tries.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death. ”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
tags: humour
“Imagine every moment being at one and the same time a distant memory and a nasty surprise and you鈥檒l see what I mean.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“My Lord... what is Death like?" called the old man tremulously.
"When I have investigated it fully, I will let you know," came the faintest of modulations on the breeze.
"Yes," murmured the Loremaster. A thought struck him. "During daylight, please," he added.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“So the fire and its subsequent flood, wich destroyed everything left that was not flammable and added a particularly noisome flux to the survivors'problems, did not mark its end. Rather it was a fiery punctuation mark, a coal-like comma, or salamander semicolon, in a continuing story.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“But if you must know, your moon here is rather more powerful than the ones around my own world.鈥
鈥淭he moon?鈥 said Twoflower. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 under-鈥
鈥淚f I鈥檝e got to spell it out,鈥 said the troll, testily, 鈥淚鈥檓 suffering from chronic tides.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
tags: humor
“The complete reverse was so often the case that he had come to think of it as a kind of natural law.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“She was the Goddess Who Must Not Be Named; those who sought her never found her, yet she was known to come to the aid of those in greatest need. And, then again, sometimes she didn't. She was like that.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going around to atheists鈥 houses and smashing their windows.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“There was the faintest of sounds, as of a gnat yawning.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“An alternative, favoured by those of a religious persuasion, was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis.”
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
“There was, for example, the theory that A'Tuin had come from nowhere and would continue at a uniform crawl, or steady gait, into nowhere, for all time. This theory was popular among academics.”
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
“I could lend you a very fast horse" - Death”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“Tell him - tell him he's very welcome. Tell him breakfast is - uh - one gold piece'. For a moment Broadman's face looked as though some vast internal struggle was going on, and then he added with a burst of generosity, 'I'll throw in yours, too.' 'Stranger,' said Rincewind levelly. 'If you stay here you will be knifed or poisoned by nightfall. But don't stop smiling, or so will I.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“In a distant and secondhand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part鈥 See鈥 Great A鈥橳uin the turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“You鈥檙e hearing things said the voice in Rincewind鈥檚 head.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“There was, for example, the theory that A'Tuin had come from nowhere and would continue at a uniform crawl, or steady gait, into nowhere, for all time. This theory was popular among academics.
An alternative, favoured by those of a religious persuasion, was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“Dosflores era un turista, el primero del Mundodisco. Seg煤n decidi贸 Rincewind, turista significaba 芦imb茅cil禄.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance, boredom, fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“It had to be Death. No-one else went around with empty eye sockets and, of course, the scythe over one shoulder was another clue.”
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
“Something was happening to the five, however. Battered by the chance collision of several billion molecules, the die flipped onto a point, spun gently and came down a seven. Blind Io picked up the cube and counted the sides. 鈥淐ome on,鈥 he said wearily. 鈥淧lay fair.”
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“Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.”
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
“And after that I'll get a job juggling snowballs through Hell, he added bitterly in the privacy of his own skull.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“By now the whole of downtown Morpork was alight, and the richer and worthier citizens of Ankh on the far bank were bravely responding to the situation by feverishly demolishing the bridges.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“But it鈥檒l kill him!鈥
鈥淚t could be worse,鈥 said Rincewind.
鈥淲丑补迟?鈥
鈥淚t could be us,鈥 Rincewind pointed out logically.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“His words drifted across Death's scythe and split tidily into two ribbons of consonants and vowels.”
Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
“In a city where public executions,duels, fights, magical feuds, and strange events regularly punctuated the daily round, the inhabitants had brought the profession of interested bystander to a peak of perfection. They were, to a man, highly skilled gawpers.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
“It has been remarked before that those who are sensitive to radiations in the far octarine鈥攖he eighth color, the pigment of the Imagination鈥攃an see things that others cannot.”
Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic