Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.

Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.