“In a distant and secondhand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly…”
“Being Ymor’s right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.”
“It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going around to atheists’ houses and smashing their windows.”
“He drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll.”
“It sounded like the sliver of a scream, caught in one long instant of time.”
“He’d broken through the terror barrier, perhaps, and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side.”
“ ‘It is forbidden to fight on the Killing Ground,’ he said, and paused while he considered the sense of this. ‘You know what I mean, anyways,’ “
“It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.”
“He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided.”
“ ‘My name is immaterial,’ she said.
‘That’s a pretty name,’ said Rincewind.”
“ ‘Well?’ he said, filling a mere four letters with a full lexicon of anger and menace.”
