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What's your favourite Discworld quote?
I've been re-reading the Discworld books recently and there are so many quotes that jump out at me as forming who I was as a child, or particularly relevant in 2025.
I'm interested in everyone's favourite Sir Pterry quote, if you have one!
My top two that I can think of
It all starts with thinking about people as things
You and @definitelynotafae nailed my top three! I have a couple more from Death who is far and away my favorite character:
And
I love the comic depiction of this quote:
https://www.tumblr.com/adi-fitri/105355206099/its-a-sword-its-not-meant-to-be-safe-my
To start off, I have two I've been thinking about a lot lately:
as well as
I have to add this one:
And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
Also, the obligatory link to the Annotated Pratchett File which contains annotations for many of the obscure references and jokes throughout the series (and sometimes even additional commentary from online posts made by Pratchett himself).
I have a whole list of them in my quotation database. Many have already been mentioned here. One notable one is not from a book, but the man himself:
Oh, man, that's a really neat one.
I have too many favorites, so these are more ones I remember offhand than favorites because they're all my favorite.
Oh fun. I re-read Going Postal last fall, and now I'm going through the Tiffany Aching books as a read-aloud with one of my daughters. They're new to both of us, and we're in the middle of Wintersmith right now; she's about the same age as Tiffany in this book, so that's a ton of fun. (At some point, I really need to skim back through and add more Tiffany Aching stuff to my quotations file.)
I can't choose just one, so here are a few favorites from my file:
Since I work in tech, love math and physics, and currently help design hardware...
...and previously worked on the technical side of movie VFX.
Try new things...
...and aim high.
:) the Moist books are near and dear to the heart of our resident Engineer. Making Money was my favourite of the three, but certainly Raising Steam was also a delight.
Recently read The Light Fantastic, and this killed me. So many potential choices for the best though.