It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someoneโs mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.
Terry PratchettThe people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armour. You didn't get the chance every day to see someone baked alive in their own armour. It would be something for the children to remember.
Terry PratchettI donโt see why it matters what is written. Not when itโs about people. It can always be crossed out.
Terry PratchettIt seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.
Terry PratchettYou have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape โ the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes โ we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
Terry Pratchett