Some of my favourite quotes:
“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.”
“It was a small village, and wouldn’t have shown up on a map of the mountains. It barely showed up on a map of the village.”
“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 round to atheists’ houses and smashing their windows.”
“I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.”
“The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn’t sure it was worth all the effort.”
“The truth isn’t easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find…”