It's the best thing in the world to save a life, no matter whose it is.
People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle
I strike fear into you because I am a man?" "It isn't funny." "I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.
A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.
A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.
people don't get me it's more rule than exception God bless exceptions
God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.
On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.
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 hab...
Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ ]
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments." [ ]
Feeling uncomfortable is the first step towards growth.
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.
You only have one day at a time to live, so live it and choose well!
You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?
Does he make you see stars?’ he asks in a low voice. ‘Does he call you his north star? Because that’s what you are to me. You’re the reason I made it home.
I could use you—if you pass the tests, of course. There are three of them. You have passed the first." "What are the other—" Hrun paused, his lips moved soundlessly and then he hazarded, "two?
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.
He gave me a small smile, and in that smile I saw our whole catastrophic history playing out before my eyes.
History should be studied but not worshipped.
