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‘If we’ve got to pay for der furniture, I’m soon goin’ to have to eat my dinner through a straw.’

‘What does it want him for?’ said Susan. ‘It’s using him, but what for?’

Ridcully realized his foot was tapping. He stamped on it with his other foot.

The boy looked paralysed by the attention.
He said: ‘Hello… er… Ankh-Morpork…’
And, this amount of conversation apparently having exhausted him, he started to play.

‘Have you been taking dried frog pills, old chap?’ said Ridcully.
‘Of course not, they’re for the mentally unstable!’ said the Dean.
‘Ah. There’s the trouble, then.’

She was quite attractive in a skinny way,

TIME IS ONLY A PLACE.

The blue glow was bottomless. It seemed to be sucking her own thoughts out of her mind.

A PIECE OF MYTHOLOGICAL DEBRIS.

I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.

GETTING ENTANGLED WITH HUMANS CLOUDS THE THINKING.

It was clear that black was the only option, but she settled on something practical and without frills. She put her head on one side critically.
‘Well, maybe a bit of lace,’ she said.

‘Well, then,’ she said, ‘I don’t want something soppy and posey. No silly black lace or anything worn by idiots who write poetry in their rooms and dress like vampires and are vegetarians really.’

‘Why’s everyone suddenly so musical?’

By the measure of infinity, it hardly existed at all.

‘It can’t possibly work. I’m human. I have to go to the toilet and things like that.

‘There’s no Time here except what people brings with ’em.

She didn’t try to sit in the chair. There was a deep pit in the leather. Someone had spent a lot of time sitting there.

the King is actually quite charming and assures me he can’t even remember when he last ate anyone.

Susan got through the next morning without having to go non-existent.