"What he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when …"

"The Watch were always careful not to intervene too soon in any brawl where the odds were not heavily stacked in their…"

"It could be worse," he said by way of farewell. "It could be me."

"That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes n…"

"At the back of his mind a bad feeling began to grow. He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted wi…"

"Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenery that inspired Twoflower to use the word - tha…"

"It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, bu…"

"'You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree.'"

"What heroes like best is themselves."

"If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet …"