It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.

Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.