... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.

— Terry Pratchett

A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.

— Terry Pratchett

An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

— Terry Pratchett

And although the space they occupy isn’t like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. Not a cubic inch there but is filled by a claw, a talon, a scale, the tip of tail, so the effect is like one of those trick drawings and your eyeballs eventually realize that the space between each dragon is, in fact, another dragon.

— Terry Pratchett

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

— Terry Pratchett

And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master. Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers!

— Terry Pratchett

And DIL was realizing that there are few things that so shake belief as seeing, clearly and precisely, the object of that belief. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed anymore.

— Terry Pratchett

And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.” Death sighed. No, he said... there’s just me.

— Terry Pratchett

And if I was to point at a castle on a towering crag and say 'Yonder is...her castle' a golf would be bound to howl mournfully. In her old country, her scenery is psychotropic and knows not is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny day.

— Terry Pratchett

And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"?

— Terry Pratchett