“The gods were great, but what good was greatness if you didn't love?”

“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two additional powers was as strong as the other: love and imagination. OF the three, God and love were always good. Imagination, however, could be good or bad. Mozart imagined great music into existence. Hitler imagined death camps and built them. Imagination was so powerful that you had to be careful because you could imagine things into existence that you might regret, Everything in the universe was an idea before it was real.”

“Good god it's great to be a Bull Mongoni!”

“God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?”

“Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.”

“Ye gods, it was so much better when there were just four of us up against that bloody great dragon, Vimes thought as they walked on. Of course, we nearly got burned alive a few times, but at least it wasn't complicated. It was a damned great dragon. You could see it coming. It didn't get political on you.”