In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language.
Terry PratchettThey looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
Terry PratchettDown there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.
Terry PratchettYou canโt say โif this didnโt happen then that would have happenedโ because you donโt know everything that might have happened. You might think somethingโd be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You canโt say โIf only Iโdโฆโ because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, youโll never know. Youโve gone past. So thereโs no use thinking about it.
Terry Pratchett