"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."
— Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time)

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."
— Terry Pratchett (The Last Continent)

""My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens: men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain fields down yonder? [...] The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back to the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wheat in the wind..." "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

"Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."
— Terry Pratchett

"And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince - Le Petit Prince)

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

"But on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you need do is move your chair a few steps. You can see the day end and the twilight falling whenever you like...

"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"

And a little later you added: "You know, one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"

But the little prince made no reply."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince and "Letter to a Hostage ")

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."
— Terry Pratchett

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much money does his father make?' Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."
— Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

""I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...""
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"'Don't tell me,' Jace said,'Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomarrow. I'm out of commission.' He pointed at himself-he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve.'Look. Jammies.'

'Jace,' Clary said,'this is important.'

'Don't tell me,' he said.'You've got a drawing emergency. You Need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge,' he said as an afterthought. 'I hear he'll do anything for a -'

'JACE!' she interrupted him, her voice rising to a scream.'JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOUND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?'

He blinked."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
— Terry Pratchett

"'You are not at all like my rose,' he said. 'As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.'

And the roses were very much embarrassed.

'You are beautiful, but you are empty,' he went on. 'One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you — the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or ever sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.'"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankfupt
-Clary Fray

I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain
-Jace Wayland"
— Cassandra Clare

"No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?"
— Terry Pratchett (Night Watch)

"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"'...Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

""I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored"

"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"There's always a light at the end of the tunnel. Of course, it's usually an oncoming express train."
— Cassandra Clare

"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
— Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

"He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass. "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234.'""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."
— Terry Pratchett (Eric)

"It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green."
"If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"A goal without a plan is just a wish. "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the
face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the
oranges you originally asked for."
— Cassandra Clare

""I am a man" he told her, " and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone, woman, and bring me something brown." Jace, City of Glass, Mortal Instruments
"
— Cassandra Clare

"'I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.'"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
— Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man)

""Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."

"I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.""
— Cassandra Clare

"Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"'It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,' he said. 'Have you thought of going into teaching?'"
— Terry Pratchett (Mort)

"No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes)

"Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane."

"They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down."

"Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed."

Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down.""
— Cassandra Clare

"“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”

"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"
— Richard Bach

"Jace shook his blond head in exasperation.

"You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?""
— Cassandra Clare