A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.