Terry Pratchett & Rob Wilkins; Books Written Cheap
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Two unparalleled storytellers with a shared conviction that each of us should have a say in how our own story end. GNU Sir Patrick Stewart
ALT Sir Terry Pratchett and Sir Patrick Stewart
"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.” The audiobook of Night Watch is £5 with @librofm until 12th October (UK only). You can start listening here: lnk.to/NightWatchSale
Join Rhianna Pratchett and Gabrielle Kent at 5pm on the 3rd October at Questival on the Wirral for a special conversation about Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch, from finding Tiff’s voice to bringing together the wisdom of the witches of Discworld:
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“People who weren't certain they were right argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.”
@BillBailey and @MaisieAdam narrate Truckers, Diggers & Wings in new audiobooks coming 12th November: linktr.ee/Bromeliad
“I woke to the news that Sir Terry Pratchett passed away. I knew this was coming, but—as with the passing of Robert Jordan almost eight years back—it still hit me like a slap to the face… The most fitting memorial I can give is this: a request.
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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance.
They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.
— Equal Rites
There was another silence while they stared at one another, nose to nose, but this silence was a whole quantum level of animosity higher than the last one; you could have roasted a turkey in the heat of this silence.
– Wyrd Sisters
Happy Birthday Terry
ALT A small bottle of Honey Bee Indian Brandy to celebrate Sir Terry Pratchett’s birthday
Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I’ll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I’m not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard…
But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought.
- Guards! Guards!
“History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it.”
Mort is in @librofm's Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale for only £5.99 until 26th April. You can get the audiobook here: lnk.to/MortDiscworld
It is said that the opposite of noise is silence. This isn’t true. Silence is only the absence of noise.
– The Light Fantastic
‘I never said nothing,’ said Nanny Ogg mildly.
‘I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You’ve got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn’t dead!’ [said Granny Weatherwax]
– Lords and Ladies