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It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

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IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.

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Wanna see how creepy I can be?"-Mr Teatime

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That was an important rule of any game: always make it easy for people to give you money.

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It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

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Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

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When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

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It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly.

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You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.'She's a child!' shouted Crumle...more

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YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

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At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it...more

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I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

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Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you co...more

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It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

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...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already be...more